New Delhi, September 23: Criticising the Environment Ministry for not taking action against UP Chief Minister Mayawati for her statue-building spree, SP today said it smacked of the Congress being “hand in glove” with BSP. “I commend the Supreme Court for taking action against Mayawati. Why has the Environment Ministry not taken action against her till now,” SP General Secretary Amar Singh told reporters here.
He said, “this shows Congress is hand in glove with BSP. This fact is also evident from the way Congress reacted when UPCC chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi”s house was attacked in Lucknow. They just dismissed the incident saying she should not have used such words”.
On the government”s austerity drive, Singh, who made his first public appearance at a function after a kidney transplant, said “if they practise austerity, then it should be evident to people and they need not exhibit it in front of everybody”.
—PTI–