Union Textiles Minister and Member of Parliament from Amethi, P Smriti Irani, hit out at the Congress, saying that a family head did politics there but it was the Bharatiya Janata Party which took up development work in the area.
“I am happy that the BJP is fulfilling the aspirations of the people of Amethi and adjoining areas,” she said during her day-long visit to Amethi parliamentary constituency on Tuesday.
Without taking names, Irani said that it was satisfying for her that the BJP was living up to the expectations of the people by ensuring development works.
The Union minister, who visited Salon town of adjoining Rae Bareli falling in the Amethi constituency, also inaugurated 12 Anganwadi centres and said that such development were required at this juncture.
Irani also met with officials at Salon tehsil office and prayed at Hanuman temple in the tehsil premises.
During her visit, Irani also accepted letters from her voters demanding welfare works in their areas while some lawyers complained about the functioning of lekhpals