Badaun/Bhimnagar: Taking his campaign to Mulayam Singh Yadav's turf, Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday stepped up his offensive against Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party and sought a ten-year Congress rule in Uttar Pradesh to bring about a major transformation through fast-tracking developmental work in the State.
Gandhi, who began his five-day trip on Tuesday, said only the Congress has taken up the cause of people in the state. Citing Bhatta Parsaul, where farmers were targeted in May, he said, none of the other parties barring Congress were seen there.
"In the past 20 years, what did you get? You trusted SP. What did you get in return? You trusted BSP. What did you get? (You got) corruption. Now, we are talking about development, we are talking about the future.
"UP can change. This is not difficult. Take it from me in writing. In five years, we can start changing this state and in ten years, people from outside will come here looking for jobs. People will then ask, what is happening in UP...we can change things easily," he told a political rally.
SP workers attempted to block the cavalcade of Gandhi, who started his five-day tour of western districts of poll-bound Uttar Pradesh. About 15 SP activists were detained as they tried to breach the security cordon of Gandhi, who is an SPG protectee, Senior Superintendent of Police Satyendra Veer Singh said.
Claiming that people have been suffering for the past two decades, Gandhi said people ask him why they have to leave UP for jobs outside.
Launching an attack on Mayawati, he said there were scams in every constituency and there was no dearth of money but "ministers are stealing it".
"The money is not reaching you. Influential people do not feel the problems but it is the poor who are suffering. The problem today is that the leaders do not come to the ground," he said.
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