Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh and Bahujan Samaj
Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi
of diverting people's attention from real issues and urged the Election
Commission to take note of it.Their reaction came soon after Modi announced
that India became "a space superpower" by becoming the fourth country
to acquire anti-satellite capability.Taking a dig at Modi, Akhilesh Yadav
accused Modi of diverting the attention of the people from real issues by
pointing to the space."Today Modi got himself an hour of free TV to divert
nation's attention away from issues on ground -- unemployment, rural crisis and
women's security -- by pointing at the sky."He said the success for the
mission belonged to scientists.Mayawati too asked the Election Commission to
take serious note of Modi's speech."Many congratulations to the Indian
security scientists for destroying a satellite in space and making the country
proud.But she said that Modi's attempts to score political gains was
condemnable. "The Election commission should take serious note of
it," she tweeted.