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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Saturday commented Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi to stop his “political drama”. Attacking Rahul Gandhi and the Government at the Centre she once again threatened of withdrawing her support to the UPA coalition.

Commenting Rahul’s dharna on the street along with farmers of Jhansi in Bundelkhand region, Maya told him that instead of enacting a “political drama” to hide the Congress defeat in the recent bye elections, which he has been doing for the last two days, he should, as an MP from the state, persuade the Centre to implement the special development package for Uttar Pradesh.

Mayawati said that Rahul don’t understand politics, the power which he got inherited. Mayawati claimed that he has forgotten the biggest problem of inflation faced by the people and that the Central Government could fall anytime on the issue.

After sweeping all the five bye elections this week, the BSP supremo has reiterated her threat of withdrawing her support to the government at the Centre if it failed to provide special economic package of Rs 80,000 crores for development of eastern parts and the Bundelkhand region and check inflation within three months time.

“This is the last warning,” Mayawati said adding she would be sending the letter of withdrawal of support without any warning to the President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi if the Centre failed on these two fronts.

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Congress General Secretery Rahul Gandhi was stopped by the police to meet the Divisional Commissioner in Uttar Pradesh leading the young congress leader to sit on the road on a dharna as the head of more then 200 farmers.

Rahul who landed in Jhansi on Friday afternoon was on his way to meet the DC P V Jaganmohan to solve the problems of the farmers as a part of his renewed campaign against irregularities in the implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS). Farmers’ suicides have also been reported in the past from this region of Uttar Pradesh.

After landing in Jhansi, Rahul met the draught hit farmers in Ghisauli village. Farmers told him that they were denied of the employment assured under the centrally funded NREGS which guarantees 100 days engagement against a daily wage of Rs 100 during a year’s span.

Farmers telling about their problems stated, “There is some commotion when someone like you or Chief Minister Mayawati comes here; but no sooner than you all leave, officials turn apathetic once again.”

After going through their problems and other issues Rahul rushed to the DC residence along with the farmers in one of the five locally arranged buses.

Out of panic or what, Rahul was interrupted some 500 m away and stopped him there saying, “The divisional commissioner sent word that he was willing to meet Rahul alone, but would not allow him to bring the 200 — odd farmers accompanying him.”

But Rahul denied the order and sat on the roads along with the farmers.

Apparently, on getting a green signal from state capital Lucknow, the commissioner agreed to let Rahul in along with the band of farmers.

After meeting with commissioner P V Jagmohan and his team of officials, Rahul told the media, “I came here to convey the plight of these villagers to the commissioner; they are very poor people and they wanted that I must accompany them so that their grievance against serious discrepancies and irregularities in NREGS could be redressed.”

“The commissioner has promised to ensure proper implementation of NREGS in this village so that these poor farmers were duly employed and paid the prescribed wages under the provisions of the scheme.” He added.

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati while addressing a public rally on Wednesday called Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi a ‘hypocrite’. She alleged that the Congress party is fooling ‘Dalits’ for four decades.

She was addressing a rally in Murad Nagar assembly constituency where a by-election is being held after Independent MLA Raj Pal Tyagi quit his seat to join the BSP. She blamed that Congress sent Rahul to impress people and he pretends to be good for ‘Dalits’. Mayawati repeated her words that Rahul takes bath to ‘purify’ him after touching ‘Dalit’ children.

Mayawati said, “The congress is jittery because of the expanding base of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and has therefore sent Rahul Gandhi to act as a friend of Dalits.”

Commenting on her personal enmity with Mulayam Singh Yadav, the chief minister said if she had been maintaining personal enmity, Yadav would have been in jail now.

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After inviting the batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar, Indian Olympic Association (IOA) now seeks Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi along with other young Parliamentarians to take part in the Indian leg of the Olympic Torch Relay.

IOA president Suresh Kalmadi said the step to invite political personalities has been taken on the behest of the organisers.

“They want people from all walks of life to take part in the relay. So, we have invited few young MPs, including Rahul Gandhi, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Jitin Prasada and Sachin Pilot,” Kalmadi told.

However Kalmandi said that formal invitation is sent to Rahul but he will visit personally to them and will invite in the relay.

He also assured that the Indian leg of the relay going to take place on April 17 in New Delhi would go without any trouble in spite of protests all over the world.

“The torch relay is a matter of pride and we would ensure that no untoward incident takes place. Everything has been planned and there would be adequate security measures,” he said.

However, sources close to Gandhi family disclosed that the young Gandhi is unlikely to accept the invitation. Reason is not yet cleared.

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Other greats from diverse fields like Leander Paes, actors Saif Ali Khan and Soha Ali Khan, Tata Consultancy Services CEO Subramanian Ramadorai, Ingram Micro India CEO Jaishankar Krishnan and orthopedic surgeon Dr Vaibhav Bagaria from Nagpur will also take part in the event.

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After the cabinet expansion today UPA chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi said that she wanted to include a few more young persons in the Union Council of ministers, and she had wanted his son and Member of Parliament Rahul Gandhi to become a minister, but he denied the ministerial berth and he told that he will prefer to work for the party.

Sonia Gandhi was talking to the media persons after the swearing in ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan.

She also told that she wanted to include more fresh faces but due to coalition problems it was not possible. She further informed that “I wanted Rahul to be in the government but he declined. He said he has the responsibility of youth Congress and would not be able to do justice to both the positions if he was given a ministerial berth”.

“In a coalition, there is not much scope,” she remarked over the question of “why only two young MPs — Jyotiraditya Scindia and Jitin Prasada — were inducted into the Council of Ministers,” suggesting that sensitivities of partners have to be kept in mind in such an exercise.

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After being issued a death warrant to Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh in Pakistan, his sister appealed to General Secretary of Congress Rahul Gandhi on Monday for taking the matter with the Government.

“I met Rahul Gandhi, who assured me that he will take up the issue with Prime Minister and Sonia Gandhi,” Sarabjit’s sister Dalbir Kaur said after meeting.

Mercy petition sent to Pakistan President President Pervez Musharraf was rejected on March 3 and Sarabjit is sentenced to hang on April 1 for his alleged involvement in four bomb blasts in Pakistan in 1990.

“Rahul treated me as his elder sister and assured every possible help to save Sarabjit’s life,” she said.

“If the Prime Minister takes Sarabjit’s issue seriously and puts pressure on Pakistan Government, then nobody can hang him,” an emotional Dalbir said.

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