Congress leaders in UP slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party government and advised Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to come out of the ‘self-praise’ mode and do something on ground.
Earlier, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had termed the three-year report card of the Yogi government as a “filled with lies”.
“The BJP government, which celebrated its third anniversary in UP on Thursday, has nothing to showcase as achievements and there are only failures,” said UP Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu while talking to media persons at the Mall Avenue UPCC headquarters in Lucknow on Thursday.
Accompanied by Congress Legislative Party leader in the Assembly, Aradhana Mishra, and Legislative Party leader in the Council, Deepak Singh, Lallu released a ‘White Paper’ on the three-year rule of the Yogi government and charged that while people of the state were suffering, the government was celebrating.
“Farmers’ suicide has increased as the promise of the BJP to double farmers’ income has turned out to be a political farce. Besides, unemployment has added to the woes of the people,” he said.
The Congress leader also raked up corruption in the government and alleged that all exams for recruitment were marked with irregularities while government departments were hardly working, leading to budget funds not being utilised.
Aradhana Mishra alleged that the BJP government had made tall claims on investments in the state. “But in reality, of the 1,045 MoUs signed during Investors’ Summit, only 9 to 10 per cent came down to the ground, which exposes the government claims,” she asserted.
Mishra further claimed that crime against women had increased in BJP rule and every hour, seven crimes were being committed against the women in the state.
Attacking the chief minister, Deepak Singh said that the government was busy in ‘propaganda politics’ and had done nothing but wasted public money to advertise false claims.
Singh said that in the name of realisation of losses during violence during anti-CAA protests, the Yogi government had spent more money to put-up hoardings than what was to be recovered from the accused.