Addressing a largely-attended election rally at Dr Rizvi Degree College in Karari, Kaushambi on Friday, Rahul Gandhi held BSP responsible for the pathetic conditions in UP. "Haathi ghaas khata hai, aur saath mein ganna aur sugar mill bhi kha jaata hai (Elephant eats grass as well as sugarcane and sugar mills)," he alluded sarcastically. Saying that both Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party and ruling BSP responsible for UP's backwardness and endemic corruption, Rahul Gandhi added "while Mulayam's regime was mired by the police recruitment scam, the present BSP government has eaten up all the Central funds sanctioned meant for the poor".
