Funds not reaching poor in Mayawati land: Sonia

Feb 01, 2012 |

IANS

Lucknow

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Slamming the Mayawati government for 'inefficient implementation of centrally funded developmental programmes', Congress president Sonia Gandhi began her campaign for the Uttar Pradesh polls Wednesday.

Speaking at a rally in Gonda town, Mrs Gandhi said though the UPA government provided more than Rs 1 lakh crore in developmental funds to Uttar Pradesh in recent years, it had not reached the poor because of an "inept" state administration.

Asking people to vote the Congress to power in the state, Mrs Gandhi said: "Then we will have a government of the common people and the poor."

The Congress has been out of power in Uttar Pradesh since 1989. The state will see seven-phased polls from February 8 to March 3. Votes will be counted on March 6.

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