Bhopal: Union Food and Civil Supply Minister and Janata Dal (U) president Sharad Yadav on March 12 charged the Opposition BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) in Madhya Pradesh with not doing anything to ask the Congress in the state what its government had done during its 10-year rule.

"The Congress is raising issues which would divert the mind of the people from the real problems affecting them," Yadav, who is in Bhopal to take part in a rally being organised by his party against the Congress government in the state, told a press conference.

The ruling party in Madhya Pradesh was raising emotional issues to sway the minds of the people, he alleged.

Politics should be a means for improving the lot of the common man, Yadav said adding it was unfortunate that two major political parties in the state were "busy in trying to raise only emotional issues".

PTI