Uttar Pradesh registering negative growth rate: BJP

LUCKNOW: BJP today termed 'Rising Uttar Pradesh' slogan of SP government as hollow and alleged that UP which has maximum possibilities of growth in the country was heading towards negative growth.

"The Rising UP slogan of the state government is hollow. According to the figures of Central Statistics Organisation growth rate of the state had declined in the last two years," BJP state president Laxmi Kant Bajpai alleged in a statement issued here.

"Due to misrule of SP and BSP governments, UP, which has maximum possibility of growth in the country, has registered negative growth rate," he added.

Bajpai claimed that as per the CSO data, UP growth rate which was 6.87 per cent declined to 5.92 per cent in Akhilesh regime in the financial year 2012-13.

He said that in 2013-14 this growth rate further declined to 5.14 per cent.

The state president alleged that due to poor law and order, lack of infrastructure and weak will power the SP government failed to do expected development of the state.

He said that higher growth rate could not be achieved by false publicity, but it require concrete steps.