"Cabinet will decide on the issue later on", Mayawati said, claiming that the land allotment was not approved by the Cabinet due to a ‘goof-up’ by officials of previous regime.

Taking a pot-shot at the Congress chief for terming Rae Bareli and Amethi as ‘karmbhoomi of Firoze, Indira and Rajiv Gandhi and now that of her and Rahul’, Mayawati asked as to how many jobs ‘have been given to people of Rae Bareli in past 44 years of Congress rule in Uttar Pradesh and 48 years of rule at the Centre.’

"The bhoomipujan for the project is a mere drama for taking political mileage ahead of Lok Sabha elections," the BSP supremo said.

"Like Saifai was entire state for Samajwadi Party, Raebareli and Amethi are the entire state for Congress. There are already a number of factories in the district, Congress should think beyond Rae Bareli and avoid regional imbalance," Mayawati said.

"Despite this the state government is giving maximum electricity to Rae Bareli as compared to other districts," she said, adding unlike Congress, ‘BSP is not doing politics on issues of development’.

Mayawati alleged that only the Congress party people were benefiting in Rae Bareli while ‘the common people mostly dalits and minorities are still living in pitiable condition in Gandhi's karmabhoomi’.

She alleged that the Congress had put impediments in schemes like Ganga and Yamuna expressways.

"This project in Rae Bareli and a similar project at Bihar were launched simultaneously by Railways Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav. While the work has started in Bihar, nothing except false propaganda was initiated by the Congress here."

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