Uttar Pradesh Has Become a 'Crime State': Mayawati


She said schemes like unemployment allowance and kanya vidhayadhan yojna were benefiting only the family members of Samajwadi Party workers and supporters. She also said welfare schemes launched by her government have been discontinued.

Charging the present government with working with "political vendetta', Mayawati dared the SP government to come out with evidence against BSP workers against whom corruption cases have been slapped. She also claimed that only 20 per cent crime cases were being registered and Dalits were being discriminated against.

On the defeat of her party in the last assembly elections she said, "BJP and Congress had connived and transferred their votes to SP in order to keep BSP away." She accused the SP of not fulfilling its promise to give 18 per cent reservation to Muslims in education and jobs. Mayawati also slammed the state government for changing the names of districts, schemes and university named after Dalit icons by her government and rued that ever since SP has come to power, over a dozen 12 statues of Ambedkar and one of her own have been desecrated.

Source: PTI