Yoga Day event a misuse of funds: Mayawati
BSP chief says grand functions to mark Yoga Day is a misuse of funds, resources and time
With the Uttar Pradesh government set to organise a grand International Yoga Day function in Lucknow on Wednesday, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati alleged the event was a misuse of funds, resources and time.
“Instead of fulfilling its prime constitutional duty by using its power, resources and time towards providing jobs to crores of jobless poor, farmers, labourers to help them get two square meals, the Modi government is using government funds and machinery on the well-off people,” Mayawati said in a press release here.
Joining issues with farmers’ organisations who have opposed the Yoga Day celebrations, Mayawati said their protest against the “anti-poor and anti-farmers” function and policy was fully justified.
Lashing out at the “wrong policies and working” of the BJP-led government which, she claimed have further compounded the problems of the jobless and farmers and has also forced them to commit suicide, Mayawati said farmers would now hold peaceful dharna at the Niti Ayog and Jantar Mantar in Delhi from next month to draw government’s attention over it.
Alleging dwindling job opportunities and employment crunch in the IT sector also, Mayawati said under such trying times, the BJP governments at Centre and states had “adopted lax attitude and using government funds, machinery and time on programmes like yoga.”
“RSS should have been made responsible for such functions rather than BJP governments,” she said.