Lucknow/New Delhi, March 15: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati found herself under attack as she celebrated 25 years of her party BSP’s formation today with the Opposition alleging she had spent Rs 200 crore of public money on the ‘Maharally”.
A stark display of wads of Rs 1,000 notes stitched in a mammoth garland and estimated to be running into millions of rupees presented to her at the rally gave more ammunition to the opposition to target the BSP supremo. Samajwadi Party leader Shivpal Singh Yadav demanded a CBI inquiry into how such a huge amount was openly given in public.
“While Bareilly is on fire, Mayawati government is spending Rs 200 crore of public money on a rally,” SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav said in Lok Sabha. Yadav was joined by leaders of BJP and Congress in demanding Centre’s intervention to restore normalcy in riot-hit Bareilly.
–Agencies