Sheila Dikshit, Raj Babbar ride on ND Tiwari’s work to play development card

LUCKNOW: The Congress party put up a grand show of strength on the roads of the state capital with its newly appointed Chief ministerial candidate Sheila Dikshit and state chief Raj Babbar coming out all guns blazing against the SP, BSP and BJP and promising to restore the party to its grand days three decades ago.

The three-time Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit sought to make a local connect emphasising her Uttar Pradesh roots and announcing plans to visit each district of the state and appeal to the people to recall the earlier Congress regime and vote for the party to change their destiny.

“There is no alternative to the Congress. What the people suffered during the non-Congress rule everybody knows. What the people suffers in the last 27 years when others ruled the state is evident. Only the Congress worked for the development of the state and the only signs of progress that you see happened during the days of our Chief Minister ND Tiwari,” Dikshit said at the end of a long roadshow attended by large number of workers.

UP Congress chief Raj Babbar attacked his former ally Samajwadi Party saying those who do politics of one caste are ruling the state.

“From chief minister to village sarpanch everyone is from one caste. They have thrown the state into disarray.” He said the party started looting the state and the BSP in its previous regime had broken all records of corruption.