INDIA bloc's Ujjwal Singh says under BJP, Allahabad lost importance, local woes not addressed
Allahabad at Uttar Pradesh's border with Madhya Pradesh. Scores of villagers, including women and children, have gathered outside Khoota village under a tent. Soon, a convoy of SUVs arrives with workers of the Samajwadi Party and the Congress led by INDIA bloc candidate Ujjwal Raman Singh. Singh alights from his Toyota Fortuner and exchanges pleasantries with villagers and local party workers before taking the microphone to address the crowd.
«What do the farmers want? Electricity, tubewell, and lift canal so that they get water for their crops. The BJP keeps boasting of its double-engine government and does nothing on the ground,» Singh said, adding that the local MP, the state's CM and the country's PM are all from the BJP yet the party has failed to ensure the welfare of the people of the constituency.
«Bhartiya Janata Party ke logan ki neeti aur niyat saaf naahi ba (The BJP people do not have a clear policy and intention),» Singh said in the local 'Ilahabadi' dialect.
After halting for around half an hour, Singh's convoy moved onwards to Khiri and a couple of other villages. He went around on foot meeting locals, recognising several of them by their names, even as the mercury showed no signs of plummeting.
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