Click to play videoLucknow: Good behaviour is not what the UP Assembly is known for and Monday was another of those days when the MLAs behaved it when Chief Minister Mayawati was presenting her supplementary budget.
The ruckus started when much to the agitation of the Opposition, Maya revealed her plans of earmarking a sum of Rs 550 crores for her pet project of building statues, perhaps forgetting that her state is facing a severe drought.
"The cooperative, irrigation, agriculture departments of this government are sitting idle, they are not worried. The farmers have nothing to eat and there is a drought like condition in the state. But this government is not paying any heed to these problems and has seemed to turn a blind eye towards all this,” said Shivpal Singh, Samajwadi Party’s regional leader.
Mayawati's obsession with Dalit heroes may have landed her in monumental trouble this time around.
Forty-seven out of the 71 districts in UP are thirsting for water. The state government has given them the official status of drought-hit.
But her financial arithmetic to combat this drought is sounding all wrong. She has demanded only Rs 250 crore from the Centre as drought relief for Bundelkhand.
Compare this with Rs 550 crore for her statues and figure out the math. Maya's lieutenants have a ready excuse -- that the centre only cares about Rae Bareli and Amethi, the constituencies of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi respectively.
Abundance of statues and scarcity of food cannot exactly go together. So, even as Maya targets the Congress, Mulayam Singh Yadav and gang are taking aim at her and, of course, her statues.
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