Updated: October 29, 2020 12:57:36 pm
Samajwadi Party Chairman Akhilesh Yadav greets Bahujan Samaj Party Supreme Mayawati in Lucknow in 2019 (Express photo by Vishal Srivastav).
Amid speculation that some of his party’s MLA members could switch sides in Uttar Pradesh, BSP leader Mayawati said on Thursday to ensure the defeat of Samajwadi Party candidates in future elections, including those of the MLC and Rajya Sabha, his party will vote for the BJP or any other party. candidate. “Any party candidate, who will be dominant over the second SP candidate, will get all the BSP MLA votes for sure,” he said. He also said that BSP should not have formed an alliance with the Samajwadi Party before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. BSP and SP had teamed up after a gap of more than two decades to compete against the BJP.
“I want to reveal that when we decided to contest the polls with the Samajwadi Party for the Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh, we worked very hard for it, but from day 1 of our coalition, the head of the SP, Akhilesh Yadav, was telling SC Mishra who had joined since BSP-SP, should withdraw my case from June 1995. When we saw the behavior of the Samajwadi Party towards us after the results of the Lok Sabha elections, we realized that we had made a big mistake by get back our Case of June 2, 1995 against them and we should not have joined them. We should have thought about it a bit deeply, ”he said, the ANI news agency reported. The BSP had won 10 of the 38 seats it contested, while the SP recorded a victory in 5 of the 37 seats.
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In 2019, as a “goodwill gesture” at the request of the head of the SP, Akhilesh Yadav, the BSP moved an application in the Supreme Court to drop the 1995 “infamous” state guesthouse case against Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, the party had said. The incident had sown the seeds of a two-decade rivalry between the two regional parties. In June 2019, Mayawati announced a breakup with his electoral ally Lok Sabha.
In a jolt to the BSP on Wednesday, Apparently the six-part MLAs he met the head of the Samajwadi Party, Akhilesh Yadav, and later hinted that they might switch sides. Four from the rebel group also submitted an affidavit, saying that their signatures on the nomination of party candidate Ramji Gautam for the Rajya Sabha elections had been “forged”. The move turned out to be futile as the returning officer still accepts Gautam’s nomination as the Bahujan Samaj Party candidate for the November 9 biennial elections for the 10 Uttar Pradesh seats that remain vacant.
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