Fight inflation, don't play politics: Maya to Rahul

POLITICAL SPECTRUM: Mayawati says Rahul Gandhi has inherited political power but does not understand politics.

Other stories in the section:

Singur speed-breaker gone, way clear for Nano

Mamata, Buddhadeb agree to hammer out differences over farmland.

• Nano saga: twists and turns so far

• AIIMS gets clean chit for clinical trials report

Featured Blog

Rajdeep Sardesai

Tale of Two Azmis

Featured Slideshows

Related Headlines

powered by

• Low and dirty in UP: Mayawati slams Rahul
• Rahul visits Dalit villages to prove Maya wrong
• Dalit votebank: Rahul gets a reality check in Maya land

Keywords: Politics, Inflation

New Delhi: Stepping up her attack on Rahul Gandhi and the government at the Centre, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Saturday asked him to stop his ‘political drama’ and repeated her threat of withdrawing support to the UPA coalition.

All this while Rahul Gandhi is touring Bundelkhand and blaming poor management on state. But Mayawati is totally dismissive.

She has said that Rahul should focus on reducing inflation not on Bundelkhand politics.

Mayawati has also warned the Centre that if they do not release the promised package for UP, she will withdraw support.

This though is not of much significance as she has threatened the Centre on earlier occasions.

Also just a couple of weeks back Mayawati had accused Rahul Gandhi of misleading Dalits and washing his hands with soap after meeting them.

“The Congress party's heir, politics and power are an inheritance. May be this is why he is forgetting inflation is today the country's burning problem issue,” she said.

Mayawati also said that the Congress ‘prince’ has inherited political power but does not understand politics.

“He has forgotten that inflation was the biggest problem facing the people and the Central government could fall anytime on the issue.”

BSP and Congress are locked in a bitter exchange of words and Rahul Gandhi had been attacking the state government during his recent tours.

The young Congress leader had accused the government of paying lip sympathy to the cause of Dalits and Mayawati hit back with a claim that whenever Gandhi goes back to Delhi after staying at Dalit homes he took bath with special soap and ‘purified’ himself with perfume and incense sticks.

Referring to Rahul Gandhi's Bundelkhand tour, she said that her political opponents were bent upon misleading the people of the drought-hit area after the recent drubbing during the by elections.