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Friday, Sep 16, 2005

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No governance in Bihar and U.P., says Rahul

NEW DELHI: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has said there was ``no trace of governance'' in Bihar, now under Central rule.

Mr. Gandhi said he could have become the Prime Minister of the country at the age of 25 but he preferred to gain more experience before taking up the big responsibility.

Painting a grim picture of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, Mr. Gandhi said: ``You can travel right across these two States but you won't find a trace of governance here. There is no functioning government in U.P. and Bihar and so there is no governance. There is a total collapse of the administrative system in these States. Nothing happens here.''

Asked why then was his party continuing support to the Lalu Prasad-led Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Mulayam Singh Yadav Government in U.P., he appeared to put a question mark on the decisions of ``senior leaders'' of his party.

``I can't go around telling people what to do about Mulayam and Lalu. There are senior Congress leaders involved in this, and they take the decisions,'' the Lok Sabha member from Amethi in Uttar Pradesh said in an interview to Tehelka weekly.

``It is not just the issue of support, there are lots of other things. These are tricky questions and a lot of people ask me about this. But it doesn't work that way, that one fine day we decide we don't want to go along with them and that's it. It is a complex issue.''

PTI

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