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Congress offensive against SP, BSP

Special Correspondent

"No development in U.P for the last 18 years"

NEW DELHI: With the entering of the campaign mode for the first of the seven-phase elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Congress on Saturday launched an offensive challenging the Samajwadi Party, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party to explain how these parties hoped to form a government.

"None of them can claim to come to power. The people of Uttar Pradesh would have to ask these parties to explain how they plan to do so,'' Union Minister Kapil Sibal, convener of the party media committee for the polls, said.

Addressing a press conference with party spokesperson Mohan Prakash, he said that since 1989 these three parties had come to power with all kinds of permutations and combinations and if past verdicts were any indication these parties had to shift from their stated positions to come to power. Mr. Sibal said the SP and the BSP were two sides of the same coin and a vote for the former would strengthen the latter. It was time for the people of to ask as to why there had been no development during the last 18 years. The Congress would seek to focus on the need for development, atrocities against the poor and the oppressed, criminalisation and unprincipled politics.

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