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Kanpur: Congress president Sonia Gandhi launched a broadside against Uttar Pradesh's ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) yesterday and said her MP son Rahul Gandhi would go to jail if needed to protest against BSP rule.
Addressing the concluding session of the two-day Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee convention here, Gandhi held the BSP responsible for the plight of the Dalits and backward classes in the state. She also accused the BSP government of indulging in corruption.
"The government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has given millions and millions of rupees to the Uttar Pradesh government but not enough has been done for the people. It is time to ask the Uttar Pradesh government to give an account of where this money was spent," she said in her sharpest attack on the BSP since it took power in the country's most populous state last year.
'Rahul will go to jail'
"The Congress should start an agitation against the state government and [its members should] be prepared to go to jail if required. If need be, Rahul will go to jail with you," she said, referring to her son and Lok Sabha MP from Amethi. Rahul Gandhi had addressed the gathering earlier.
Referring to his visit to Uttar Pradesh in March, Rahul Gandhi said: "In Etawah, Dalits told me that [former prime minister] Indira Gandhi used to think about them, (BSP leader) Kanshi Ram used to think about them. But today they have been betrayed. There is no one to look after their interests."
He said that the Mayawati government had also ignored the interests of the backward classes in the state.
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