‘ No basic amenities in Gandhis’ bastions’
Lucknow, April 21: Attacking the Congress president, UP BJP general secretary Pankaj Singh said on Saturday that Rahul Gandhi must answer as to why the people in the constituencies represented by him and his family members in Parliament were crying for basic amenities even after so many years of Independence.
“The BJP government in the state under chief minister Yogi Adityanath is working on the ‘ sankalp’ ( pledge) of ensuring availability of electricity and water supply and construction of better roads in the village. When they ( Congress) were in power, they had never felt it appropriate to answer to anyone,” Mr Singh said.
“After the BJP came to power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has started the practice of telling the people of the country the work done in a year... We very well understand that we are answerable to the people, and we have to give answers to the people from time to time,” he said.
On the electoral understanding between the SP and BSP, which halted the saffron party’s victory march in the Lok Sabha bypolls in Gorakhpur and Phulpur, the BJP MLA said, “Forging a coalition is their internal matter, and I would not like to comment on it. But, we emerged victorious in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, 2017 UP Assembly polls and the urban local bodies polls held last year. And the reasons for the victory were the able leadership of the party, the development work done by our government and the hardwork of the party workers.”