BSP chief Mayawati said on Thursday that her party will leave no stone unturned and will vote for the BJP or any other party’s candidate to guarantee the defeat of the Samajwadi Party in future elections for the legislative council in Uttar Pradesh. He also said dropping the 1995 case against the SP was a “big mistake.”
“We have decided that to defeat the candidate of the SP in future elections of the MLC in UP, we will put all our strength and even if we have to give our vote to the candidate of the BJP or any candidate of the party, we will do so. Any candidate of the party, who will be dominant over the second candidate of SP, will get all the BSP MLA votes for sure, ”Mayawati said while speaking on the ANI news agency.
The former prime minister of Uttar Pradesh also claimed that the SP has insulted the state’s Brahmins by insulting Satish Chandra Mishra, the national secretary general of his party. He said that when the Bahujan Samaj Party saw the Samajwadi Party’s behavior towards them after the results of the Lok Sabha elections last year, they realized that they had made a big mistake in dropping the 1995 case against them.
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“We shouldn’t have joined them. We should have thought about it a bit more. We made the wrong decision in a hurry. We made a big mistake doing it, ”he said.
“I want to reveal that when we decided to contest the polls with the SP for the Lok Sabha elections in UP, we worked very hard for it, but from day one, the head of our coalition SP was telling SC Mishra that since BSP and SP had joined, I should withdraw my case from June 1995, “added the head of BSP.
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“Our party had joined the SP to fight against communal forces during the Lok Sabha elections. Due to their family’s infighting, they couldn’t gain much from the Gathbandhan (alliance) with the BSP. They stopped responding to us after the elections and, therefore, we decided to separate from them, ”he said.
His comments came even as seven rebellious legislators from his party suspended, who had opposed the nomination of the official BSP candidate Ramji Gautam for the Rajya Sabha elections. Chaudhary Aslam Ali, Hakim Lal Bind, Mohammad Mujtaba Siddiqui, Aslam Raini, Sushma Patel, Hargovind Bhargava and Bandana Singh had also met with the head of the SP, Akhilesh Yadav, on Wednesday, prompting speculation that they might abandon ship.
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