She said the central government was giving huge amounts for development under various schemes, but due to looters and scamsters (luterey aur ghotale) people had not benefited.

Sonia said fertilizers, urea had been provided for farmers by the central ministry but it was not reaching the people.

Earlier RLD chief Ajit Singh said the votes in the last elections (2007) were not for Mayawati, but were anti Mulayam Singh votes. Ajit reminded the people that they had tried Kalyan, Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav several times, now "you should try RLD-Congress government which will bring about changes and speed up development."

Independent assessment of the crowd strength varied from 5 to 10 thousand. "These people can not attract voters and nobody seems interested in listening to politicians. You hardly see any young crowd here," commented a media person.

Even BJP president Nitin Gadkari's rally was unimpressive. "This only indicates that either people have already made up their minds or are totally disillusioned with politicians," said political activist Sachchendra Kumar Singh.