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“Congress hatching political conspiracy”

Atiq Khan

JHANSI (UTTAR PRADESH): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Tuesday alleged that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance Government was hatching a political conspiracy to get her eliminated. This was evident from the Centre being loath to extend SPG security cover to her, she said.

If she was killed, the Congress should not be forgiven. Her BSP cadres should rise in unison to take revenge (badla lena hoga), Ms. Mayawati said in her address at the “Bundelkhand Vikas Haqeeqat Maha rally” (the real story of Bundelkhand’s development) at the Government Girls’ Inter College ground here.

The rally was seen as Ms. Mayawati’s response to the charges levelled by the Congress, especially AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi, against her government on the issue of Bundelkhand. He visited Bundelkhand on January 16 and 17.

After the success of this rally, there was a likelihood of the Prime Minister visiting Bundelkhand in the next 10-12 days to announce a relief package, she said.

Ms. Mayawati charged the Centre with adopting double standards on the creation of the Bundelkhand State. The separate State would be created once the BSP formed a government at the Centre.

The Chief Minister said she learnt from sources that the Congress, “going the BJP way,” was planning to reopen the Taj Heritage Corridor case and appeal against the clean chit given to her by the Income Tax Appellate Authority in the disproportionate assets case.

On Mr. Gandhi staying for a night in a Dalit household in Amethi on Saturday, the Chief Minister said the Dalits would not vote the Congress for the “stage-managed show.” They had not forgotten the Congress “machinations” to ensure the defeat of B.R. Ambedkar in the 1952 Lok Sabha polls.

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