Lucknow/Unnao:
Accusing the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP) of making "only promises", Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today tore a piece of paper at an election meeting to drive home the point that "mere lists" of assurances were of no use.
"They promise that they will give power, water and employment and if not employment, then unemployment allowance...this is mere list of assurances...," he said at an election meeting and tore a paper to stress his point.
"Did you understand," he asked, referring to his act of tearing the paper and said "only promises will not do".
He then charged BSP chief Mayawati and SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav with not honouring their commitments made in the past.
Addressing his first election meeting in Lucknow, Rahul who appeared to be in a combative mood, said leaders who have been fighting against corruption "could not see corruption in Karnataka, UP or that of Babu Singh Kushwaha and Mayawati."
Kushwaha, a former Family Welfare minister in the Mayawati government, who is an accused in the multi-crore National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam, was recently inducted in the BJP.
Asserting that thousands of crores of rupees have been provided for Lucknow under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), Rahul asked the people to question their chief minister as to where it has gone.
Stressing that he has not come to the people with only promises, Rahul said people should go and listen to leaders of BJP, BSP and SP and make up their mind and if they want to change the state, they should back the Congress.
He said Congress was fighting the elections in the state not for the sake of seats, but for the future of the people and the youth.