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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Mayawati trashes MNREGA scam charges, calls Rahul's concern for weavers politically motivated by Ashish Tripathi

Mayawati trashes MNREGA scam charges, calls Rahul's concern for weavers politically motivated by Ashish Tripathi

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published Published on Nov 19, 2011   modified Modified on Nov 19, 2011

Rebutting union rural development minister's allegation of corruption in implementation of MNREGA in UP, chief minister Mayawati on Saturday said that the accusations are politically motivated and misleading.

As per the evaluation of MNERAGA cell of the union government, UP has been among the best performing states in last four but all of sudden the corruption charges have cropped up, she said, which shows that there is more politics than genuine concern for MNREGA in Jairam's allegations.

UP cabinet secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh, while briefing media persons on behalf of the chief minister, also said that soon after coming to power in 2007, the BSP government had recommended CBI probe into the multi-crore food grain scam under Swarn Jayanti Rojgar Yojna, which the central government rejected but later CBI was handed over the probe after high court's intervention.

Similarly, he said, chief minister has asked for a 36,000 package for east UP which had proposals for the benefit of weavers but the union government did nothing. Now, he said, when elections are round the corner, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi after his recent visit to east UP had written to the textile minister to provide relief to the east UP weavers. Acting as per Rahul's directions, he said, union textile minister Anand Sharma is visiting Varanasi on Saturday. This, he added, chief minister believes is nothing but political move taken in view of upcoming UP assembly elections due in March-April 2012.

On the MNREGA scam, Singh said that the two letters of the union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh has based his allegations on the report of state level monitors. He said that these monitors were deputed by the state government and action has been taken in 117 cases of corruption reported by the monitors. Similarly, he said out of 22 reports of the national monitors, state government has taken action in 17 and action for remaining is underway. He said that the action taken report in all the cases has already been sent to the central government. Under such conditions, he said, chief minister believes singling out UP can only be described as politically motivated as elections are round the corner.

Singh said that the chief minister also initiated several schemes for handloom workers and weavers of east UP from the limited resources of UP when Centre did not listen to the demand of special package. Now, he added, when elections are round the corner, chief minister says that if a package is being released by the central government and union textile minister is visiting weavers, it could only be described as an election stunt.

Jairam Ramesh in his first letter on October 24 had levelled allegations of large scale corruption in implementation of MNREGA. He had named seven districts where the irregularities were maximum. In response, Mayawati had rejected all allegations and had written directly to the Prime Minister, while overlooking Ramesh, describing minister's letter as politically motivated.

The second letter by Ramesh was written on November 14, the day Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi launched his poll campaign in UP. The letter accused Mayawati of protecting those involved in alleged irregularities in implementation of MNREGA in some districts -- Balrampur, Gonda, Mahoba, Sonbhadra, Kushinagar, Mirzapur and Sant Kabir Nagar districts. Now in a strongly worded response, Mayawati has described allegations as misleading.

Meanwhile, union textile minister who is visiting east UP is expected to announce a package for handloom sector in a bid to boost credit availability, subsidize freight and yarn prices. The package for the handloom sector follows a letter from Rahul on November 14 where he had said that the Rs 3,000-crore package announced in last budget has not been implemented.


The Times of India, 19 November, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Mayawati-trashes-MNREGA-scam-charges-calls-Rahuls-concern-for-weavers-politically-motivated/articleshow/10792256.cms


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