Politicians engineered Muzaffarnagar riots to win polls: Rahul Gandhi

09 Oct 2013 Evaluate

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi targeted both the Uttar Pradesh government and the BJP over the Muzaffarnagar riots. Rahul Gandhi said that politicians engineer riots to win polls and both Hindus and Muslims of Muzaffarnagar told him that there is no enmity between people but politicians divide them and added that politicians know that if there are no riots, they can't win the election.

The violence in Muzaffarnagar, also in western Uttar Pradesh, left some 50 people dead and displaced over 40,000. Rahul said that both the SP and BSP can't develop Uttar Pradesh as the Congress will do it

Gandhi, who represents Amethi in Lok Sabha, also highlighted legislations like the food security act and the land acquisition act passed by the UPA government to show that it was sympathetic to the poor and said that if Uttar Pradesh was not progressing, it was because people were being divided. He further said that people of Uttar Pradesh might not get cheap ration under the food security act, as the state government was worried it might benefit the Congress in elections.

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