Lucknow, July 20 (IANS) Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Tuesday urged party MPs to raise issues related to price rise and ill-treatment of Bhopal gas tragedy victims in the coming monsoon session of parliament.
Addressing a specially convened meeting of party MPs here, she said: ‘Faulty policies of the Congress-led UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government are responsible for the unprecedented rise in inflation, which has led to acute economic oppression of the common man.’
According to a party release, she told the MPs to highlight how the Congress-led union government stood exposed after the recent decontrol of petrol prices followed by a steep rise in the price of petrol, diesel, cooking gas and kerosene.
She told the MPs to observe strict discipline. ‘While ensuring fulfilment of the aspirations of common people, you must not do anything which could malign the image of the party.’
She also pointed towards the need to highlight the ‘discriminatory’ and ‘step-motherly’ treatment being allegedly meted out to Uttar Pradesh by the central government .
Mayawati also urged the MPs to focus themselves on the Congress regime’s ‘apathy and injustice’ towards the Bhopal gas tragedy victims.
Referring to Maoism, Mayawati said: ‘Unfortunately, the union government seemed to regard naxalism (Maoism) as a law and order problem, while there were major socio-economic factors at the root of the problem.’
