'This is Rahul Gandhi's political gimmick,' Vijay Bahadur Singh, general secretary of the BSP's parliamentary party, told reporters.

Singh said if the Congress party cared for Bundelkhand then instead of spending Rs.3,000 crore on the 2010 Commonwealth Games the money could have been spent to solve the acute water problem in the region.

Singh also said that Gandhi is doing everything to weaken the Mayawati government.

'The Congress is scared of the Mayawati government because for the last 18 years the state was run by coalition parties, but in 2007 the BSP came to power with absolute majority. So the Congress is trying to weaken the Mayawati government,' Singh alleged.

Meanwhile, Rahul Gandhi is travelling to Lucknow to address a meeting of the state Congress coordination committee Aug 4.

Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee spokesman Subodh Srivastava told IANS: 'Among the issues to be taken up for discussion at the meet would be the state's law and order situation, economic backwardness as well as the threat of communalism.'

This would be Rahul Gandhi's first address to the UPCC since the April-May Lok Sabha elections. He is expected to hold a closed-door meeting with newly elected MPS as well as Congress MLAs from the state.