Congress finally seems to have wake up from it slumber to register their presence and decided to go for ‘Rail and Road Roko’ agitation in the state on March 12 next. ``Three `M’ — Modi, Mulayam and Mayawati, were solely responsible for all woes of the people of Uttar Pradesh so we decided to go all out and expose them, particularly the two ruling, Bharatiya Janta Party in the Centre and Samajwadi Party in the State”, claimed Congress state president, Nirmal Kharti while announcing for a massive protest against the two governments in form of Rail and Road Roko agitation on comingMarch 12.
He claimed that to make the protest a historic one, the Party leaders will hold padyatra in the entire State and he himself would lead it in Varanasi and Etawah, the places represented by prime minister Narendra Modi and SP supreme Mulayam Singh Yadav, to aware the people about the failures of both the governments and call them to join their protest in exposing both the Parties..
Addressing a press conference here on Monday evening, Khatri said that a meeting of the state office bearers would be held here on coming Wednesday to chalk out the strategy for the proposed agitation on March 12. ‘ The agitation would not be of a symbolic one though we will trying to fix time for the protest and our effort will be to give less pain to the masses on the day,’ he said while adding that the main focus during the agitation would be to expose both the Centre and state governments with peoples support. Congress has planned to stop trains at all the prominent railway stations and disrupt the state and national highways on the day at vital points.
Khatri elaborating upon the lapses of the Narendra Modi government said that BJP has fooled the people by making fake promises during the lok Sabha elections and now it was doing U-turn in every issues. ‘ People were yet to get any respite from the price rise while by withdrawing Minimum Support Price(MSP) of food grains, the Centre has ditched with the farmers after amending the land Acquisition Act,’ he further said. The Centre also did not give respite to the people on the petroleum products rather than they raised the Central excise duty by Rs 8.
The UP Congress president also alleged that the Akhilesh Yadav government too have failed to control crime while corruption was rampant in this regime. When asked the SP and BSP both supported the UPA government for 10 years at the Centre, he said it was a compulsion for both the parties and Congress have given back the return by supporting both the SP and BSP candidates during the recently held Council polls,’ he stressed.