New Delhi, Feb 21 : Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday slammed the BJP governments in the Center and Uttar Pradesh over issues like unemployment and price rise and appealed to voters in her Lok Sabha constituency Rae Bareli to vote for her party. Gandhi accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of dividing the people and said the Congress wants to introduce a new kind of politics in Uttar Pradesh which will deal with people’s issues. “Polling will take place in five assembly constituencies in Rae Bareli. This election is very important for you. For five years, you have seen a government which did nothing apart from trying to divide people.
My farmer brothers and sisters are working so hard to grow food for the country. In last five years, they got neither the cost of their crops, nor fertilizer or irrigation facilities,” she said in a virtual appeal. “You are under the burden of debt, and stray animals are destroying your crops,” she said. The Congress president slammed the government over price rise. “Today, petrol, diesel, cooking gas and mustard oil are so expensive that the poor cannot even run their household,” she said. “We saw the difficult period of Corona pandemic. You did not get oxygen, medicines or hospital beds, and lost your loved ones… You faced the pain of walking back home.
But the Modi and Yogi governments kept their eyes shut towards you. They did not provide you any relief during lockdown,” she said. “Instead of helping people, the government is selling away PSUs to their favorites for paltry amounts. Therefore, unemployment has risen,” she said. She accused the Center and the Uttar Pradesh governments of giving step motherly treatment to her constituency. “We came out with many programmes for Rae Bareli but the Modi-Yogi govts stalled them. Rae Bareli has been given a step motherly treatment,” she said. Bachhrawan, Harchandpur, Rae Bareli, Sareni and Unchahar are five assembly constituencies in Rae Bareli which will see voting on February 23 in the fourth phase of Uttar Pradesh elections.
