Lucknow, 04 Sept (HS): Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) national

president Mayawati has responded to the government's claim of 7.8 percent gross

domestic product (GDP) growth in the first quarter of the current fiscal year.

She questioned who the people, troubled by inflation, poverty, and

unemployment, should trust. Mayawati said that if the government's presented

growth rate figures are accurate, it's a good thing, but if they're made up,

it's certainly a cause for concern. Therefore, to instill hope in the public,

the government must credibly explain what benefits this high growth rate has

provided to the country's millions of poor, hard-working people, and how much

it will benefit them in the future.

The BSP chief said that GDP growth figures and claims etc.

are in their place, but it is important in the interest of the country and the

people that the crores of hardworking people of the country, who are the real

beneficiaries of development, should also get its benefits and feel it.

State government gheraoed over outsourced employees: Mayawati

also responded to the Uttar Pradesh government's decision to double the

honorarium of outsourced employees and provide security cover to 2 million

people. She said that providing government jobs directly to people would have

been better than establishing the Uttar Pradesh Outsourced Services

Corporation, so that the system would be free from bureaucratic arbitrariness

and corruption.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi