Dimple coins new acronym for ‘Kasab’

Tribune News Service

Lucknow, February 25

Kannauj MP Dimple Yadav on Saturday gave a new reading to ‘KASAB’ in the context of Uttar Pradesh elections.

She said ‘ka’ was for computer, ‘sa’ for smart phone and ‘ba’ for ‘behenon ke karyakram’ or the many tailor-made schemes for women.

Addressing an election rally in Siddharthnagar, she said that if a desperate BJP introduces the Kasab discourse in the UP elections, the Samajwadi Party would give it a progressive twist.

It was on February 22 that BJP national president Amit Shah had declared that Uttar Pradesh needed to get rid of a disease called ‘Kasab’ in the UP elections.

Spelling out the abbreviation at election rallies in Gorakhpur and Azamgarh Shah, he said: “By Kasab, I mean: Ka for Congress, Sa for Samajwadi Party and Ba for Bahujan Samaj Party.”

Retaliating to Shah’s Kasab comment, BSP national president Mayawati today described Amit Shah as the Kasab of the BJP.

“He is a dangerous terrorist. Just check his antecedents in Gujarat,” she said at an election rally in Deoria today.

Alerting the people of Uttar Pradesh against the “guru and chela” (master and disciple) who were determined to destroy UP, Mayawati said that they should be taught a harsher lesson than Bihar.

Reiterating the demand for a separate Purvanchal state for the rapid development of eastern UP, Mayawati said that a proposal to this effect had been sent by her to both the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre and the Congress-led UPA government, but without any response.

At an election rally in Siddharthnagar, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav charged PM Narendra Modi with cheating from the Samajwadi Party manifesto.

He was reacting to PM Narendra Modi’s attack on his government in Gonda on Friday claiming that there were tenders for “cheating”.

The campaigning for the fifth phase of the seven-phase Uttar Pradesh elections came to an end on Saturday.