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National Dalits feel cheated under Mayawati regime: Rahul Kanpur (PTI): Continuing the Congress' tirade against the Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh, Rahul Gandhi on Monday said Dalits in the state were feeling "cheated" as no one seemed to care for them. Speaking on the concluding day of the two-day UPCC regional convention here, he narrated the story of a Dalit who held his hand and took him to his house during his recent visit to Etawah and showed the pitiable condition in which he was living with no power and no basic amenities. Quoting that Dalit, he said "Indiaraji aur Kanshiram hamare bare mein sochte the.... hamare saath dhokha hua hai' (Indiraji and Kanshiram used to think about us...we have been cheated). The young Congress MP narrated another story from his experience during his four-day tour of Karnataka and said that at a village he found some youth from UP working in a field there. On being asked why they were working in Karnataka, they told him that the "future of youths of UP lies in Karnataka". "These two stories tell us about the state of affairs in UP," he said adding these stories need to be re-written if Uttar Pradesh has to moved ahead. He also alleged that the centrally sponsored schemes were not being properly implemented in UP and expressed apprehension that the loan waiver scheme for the farmers might also meet the same fate. Rahul exhorted the party workers to "fight with the weapons provided by the UPA government in the form of various welfare schemes for the farmers and other sections". "Only then the Congress can come back to power in the state," he added. The Congress MP was cheered throughout his brief speech as over two thousand delegates from across the state shouted slogans that he was the next Prime Minister.
