Hitting out at the Yogi Adityanath government, former minister and Suheldeo Bhartiya Samaj Party chief Om Prakash Rajbhar said that the Bharatiya Janata Party regime was anti-Dalit and anti-Backward as it was promoting the rich, depriving the poor of their basic rights.
Addressing an ‘Adhikar Chetna Rally’ along with former minister Babu Singh Kushwaha in Jahurabad area of Ghazipur district on Wednesday, Rajbhar said that people belonging to deprived sections of society were neither getting government benefits nor basic rights as enshrined in the Indian Constitution.
“They are facing hardship because of the lop-sided policies of the BJP government which is loaded in favour of the rich,” he said.
He said the fact was that around 65 per cent of the poor were languishing in jail for petty crimes as they could not afford lawyers while the rich were being released after committing heinous crimes due to their resources to fight cases in court.
“This government is only promoting the upper castes while the backwards and MBCs are languishing,” he said.
In his address, Kushwaha said that the Yogi Adityanath government was even partial in reimbursing fees of students. “General category students are around seven lakh while backward caste students are 21 lakh in UP. But this government has released a budget of Rs 609 crore for upper caste students and Rs 600 crore for backward caste students. The latter amount should have been Rs 2070 crore,” he said.
“This government is privatising government jobs in a clandestine way so that the poor are deprived of jobs as reservation is not there in private sector,” Kushwaha said.
Local leaders like Ramdhani Bind, Prem Chandra Prajapati, Babu Ram Pal, Anil Singh Chauhan and Dr Arvind Rajbhar too addressed the rally.