Akhilesh government a total failure: Smriti Irani
Smriti Irani has said that she wrote to Akhilesh Yadav several times but got no response.
Lucknow, Feb 5: Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani on Saturday charged the Akhilesh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh with failing on all fronts, specially safeguarding the interests and honour of women.
Addressing
reporters
in
the
party
headquarters
here,
Irani
also
said
the
Samajwadi
Party
government
in
the
state
had
not
utilised
funds
sent
by
the
central
government.
"On
many
occasions,
I
have
written
to
the
Chief
Minister
but
got
no
response...
it
was
suggested
that
the
state
government
is
not
serious
about
welfare
programmes
like
the
Swacch
Bharat
Mission,"
she
said.
On the issue of triple talaaq, she said: "I, Priyanka Vadra and Dimple Yadav were of the same age and should come together to elaborate on the issue." She, however, added in the same breath the free thought process was blocked by vote bank politics where leaders only react when it is to their benefit.
"Are rights of Hindu women and Muslims different?" she questioned while adding in Uttar Pradesh, FIRs were not lodged in police stations, women are being gang-raped and eve teasing has become order of the day.
Listing various promises made by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in its manifesto for the assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, she said that after it was voted to power, these would be implemented in a fixed time frame.
IANS