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Mayawati hits out at Congress for Khurshid's
Batla House remarks
Saturday February 11, 2012 08:18:31 PM,
IANS
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Mirzapur (Uttar Pradesh): Hitting out at the Congress, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)
supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Saturday slammed
its leadership for shedding "crocodile tears" over the killing of
Muslim youths in an "anti-terrorist" operation at Delhi's Batla
house.
"If the Congress leadership was truly sincere on the issue, why
did it not concede the popular demand for an independent judicial
probe into the encounter?" Mayawati asked at a huge election rally
in this Uttar Pradesh district.
She was referring to union Law Minister Salman Khurshid's claim
that Congress president Sonia Gandhi almost burst into tears when
she was shown pictures of the Batla House gunfight.
Mayawati sought to alert Muslims against the Congress leadership,
whom she accused of "misleading and fooling the entire Muslim
community".
"Why did the Congress-led governments not care to implement the
recommendations of the Sachchar Committee if they were really
sincere about bringing about upliftment of Muslims," she asked.
Terming the recently announced reservation of 4.5 percent to
Muslims as a political gimmick, she said: "The UPA government's
policy to give reservation to backward Muslims out of the 27
percent quota for OBCs was another way of creating confrontation
between OBCs and Muslims."
"As far as the BSP is concerned, we have even demanded reservation
for upper caste poor, but letters written by me in this regard
have been gathering dust in the Prime Minister's Office," she
alleged.
Running down her other political rivals -- the Samajwadi Party and
the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - Mayawati claimed that the BSP
has ensured much more development over the past five years in the
state than any other government in the past decades.
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