MAYA SLAMS MODI GOVT FOR ITS ‘HISTORIC FAILURES’

: BSP president Mayawati on Saturday slammed the Narendra Modi government at the Centre for its “historic failure” in dealing with issues that concern the common man.

“The four years of the Narendra Modi government prove that it has historically failed on the issues of inflation, poverty, unemployment, welfare work and other issues that affect the life of the people in the country,” Mayawati said.

“The BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself term all their work as historic, and that is why fuel prices are at a historic high during his government,” she quipped wryly. “There is a need to control it or else BSP will be forced to start nationwide protest dharnas against it.”

The Bahujan Samaj Party chief accused the Modi government of misusing official machinery to weaken opposition parties. Under such a scenario it had no right to celebrate its four years by spending crores of rupees that could instead be used on people’s welfare, she said.

She said the parting of ways by some National Democratic Alliance partners indicated that the BJP-led government was failing.

“The NDA alliance partners are parting ways one by one and this proves that the four years of the BJP-led government have been most unsuccessful and disappointing at all levels,” Mayawati said. “This kind of exploitation of the poor, labourers, common people and women under the central government has never been seen before.”

She accused the government of “chori aur seena jori” — doing wrong and then boasting about it — and said its promises remained unfulfilled.

LUCKNOW