Claiming that Samajwadi Party was partisan towards Amethi, Congress vice-president and local MP Rahul Gandhi said that the central Government can only release money but state has to implement the schemes.
“The central Government can only finance the schemes like national highways or the schemes under Pradhan Mantri Yojana. But the state highways are to be constructed and maintained by state government. If state government does not do its duty what can we do,” Rahul Gandhi said while addressing people in his parliamentary constituency of Amethi. When a local Congress MlA attracted Rahul’s attention towards poor condition of roads in Kotwa, Mehmanpur and Sattan Ka Purwa, constructed during the time of Rajiv Gandhi, the Congress vice-president said that he would make efforts to get them repaired.
The local MP was on a tour of his parliamentary constituency today. He held ‘chaupal’ (meetings) in villages and criticised the Samajwadi Party government for poor state of roads and power in Amethi. Rahul, who reached Amethi by road from lucknow, interacted with the people at Tedhai, Thara, Shivratanganj, Paware, Semrauta, Kotwa, Mehmanpur and Sattan Ka Purwa villages and held ‘chaupals’.
During ‘chaupals’ he asked people about the food security and said that except Uttar Pradesh the Act has been implemented all over the country. “Non-implementation of Food Security Act in the state, saying the state government was “depriving” people of the benefits of the scheme. The Uttar Pradesh government says it will implement the Act after the elections, which means that till that time the people of the state would be deprived of its benefit,” the Congress leader said.“Under the new law, poor families would get 25 kg food-grain every month,” he said.
“The central government sent money to the state for development. Work of road, electricity and others has to be done by the state government.“We can only create pressure, which we do and will continue to do in future as well,” he said.