By IANS
Raipur : Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Saturday said her party would allot three-acre plots to every poor person if voted to power in Chhattisgarh which goes to the polls later this year.
Addressing a public meeting at the Science College ground here, Mayawati said: “Congress and the BJP have ruled the country since the independence but conditions of the scheduled caste (SC) and the scheduled tribe (ST) people has hardly improved.”
“A large number of SC and ST community people are living in extreme poverty, the BSP will arrange jobs and allot three-acre government plots to each of them for their all round development,” the BSP chief said amid cheering from nearly 20,000 people present.
With the Saturday’s rally, Mayawati formally launched her party’s election campaign for the assembly elections scheduled in November this year.
The BSP has just one seat in the 90-member state assembly.
Mayawati held the Congress-led central government and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state government responsible for the rise in the Maoist violence in the state. She said the both the government follow anti-development policies, which are pushing the youth to join the rebels.
Mayawati returned to Lucknow by a special plane late Saturday evening but her two-day visit has charged up the political atmosphere in the state.
Earlier, a few Samajwadi Party (SP) workers showed black flags when Mayawati landed at Raipur’s Mana airport. An hour later dozens of BSP cadres stormed into the residence of Balram Singh, state SP president, and set his car on fire after ransacking his house at Rajendra Nagar.