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We never asked anyone to 'smell good' before meeting CM: Congress
May 29, 2017
Hitting out at the burgeoning law and order crisis in Uttar Pradesh,
the Congress on Monday said that the Yogi Adityanath led-government is
unable to control the ongoing crisis, adding the state government is
also ignorant about the Dalits and minorities.
"Since the BJP government has come in power in the state,
the law and order seems out of control. If the Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister thinks that whatever he is doing is right and he knows
everything, then he is wrong. The law and order in the state is becoming
worse by every passing day. They are ignorant towards the development
of minorities and Dalits," Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge told ANI.
He
further said that Uttar Pradesh is a large constituency and the
situation at in the state affects the rest of the country as well.
"They
are unable to meet the demands of the public. The BJP has a powerful
publicity and only that is helping them," he asserted.
Echoing
similar sentiment, another Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi said
that there were no communal clashes and molestation cases during the
rule of Congress party.
"Whatever happened in Kushinagar was not
at all acceptable. Nobody from the Congress Party has ever said that you
have to smell good if you want to meet the Chief Minister," Singhvi
added.
Earlier, the District Administration in Uttar Pradesh's
Kushinagar asked the residents to have a bath before attending a meeting
with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, so that they 'smell good'.
To ensure the instructions were followed, soaps, shampoo and perfumes were distributed among the villagers.
The
members of the Mushahar community were called to attend a vaccination
program for the eradication of Encephalitis, a campaign started by the
Chief Minister in Kushinagar's Kasiya division.
Five children from the community were to be vaccinated under the campaign from the area.
Ahead
of the event, local officials distributed the soaps and shampoos to
those attending the event, in order to make them "look clean and smell
good."
Ahead of the event that the Chief Minister was going to
attend, roads were paved, toilets were fixed overnight and streets were
cleaned up in the village.
Image: A Dalit woman in Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar district shows the bars of soap she received ahead of CM Yogi Adityanath's visit
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