Akhilesh Yadav Stealing Credit for Bundelkhand Drought Funds: BJP

Recently, CM Akhilesh Yadav distributed relief packages among the Antyodaya card holder families in Bundelkhand.

A farmer walks with his hungry cow through a parched field. (Photo: Reuters)

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday accused Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav of trying to “usurp the credit of good governance” of the Narendra Modi government.

State spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak said the drought relief material which the state government was distributing in Bundelkhand was of the National Disaster Relief Fund (NDRF).

Around 75 percent share of the relief fund was of the union government and 25 percent of the state, Pathak said.

Is it prudent that in such a scenario pictures of Akhilesh Yadav are stamped on the bag and Prime Minister Narendra Modi pictures are missing?

<b>Vijay Bahadur Pathak, BJP Spokesperson of Uttar Pradesh</b>

However, a state government spokesman said the funds coming from the NDRF were only for a period of three months and the state government had taken a suo motto initiative to distribute the relief material in the drought-hit region all round the year.

Before accusing the state government of any wrong doing and trying to come across as extra-caring about Bundelkhand, the BJP needs to explain why our Rs.7,000-crore Bundelkhand package demand has not been met by the NDA government.

<b>Senior Official from the State Government</b>

He also said that the state government was doing “some serious and compassionate work” at the instructions of the Chief Minister.