After reviewing reasons behind the humiliating defeat of the party in the recent Assembly election, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati once again claimed that Muslims made a “huge mistake” by voting for Samajwadi Party, who she accused of being “complicit with the BJP in giving communal colour” to the Uttar Pradesh e;lections. The BSP won just one seat - Rasra in Ballia, in the recently-concluded election for the 403-member assembly.
In a tweet in Hindi on Tuesday, the BSP chief said, “The internal complicity of the SP and BJP in Uttar Pradesh is widely known. They created an atmosphere of fear by making the assembly polls a Hindu-Muslim affair which especially misled the Muslims and they made the huge mistake of voting unilaterally for the SP. This has to be rectified to defeat the BJP in Uttar Pradesh.”
Soon after the Assembly poll results surfaced on March 10, Mayawati had claimed that the fear of “jungle raj” returning to the state in case the Samajwadi Party emerged victorious, made the BSP supporters shift to the BJP. She had also alleged the media's aggressive propaganda portraying the BSP as the ‘B team of the BJP’ which drove Muslims and anti-BJP voters from it.
“The decision by the Muslims harmed the BSP. The party supporters among the upper castes, backwards and other communities were fearful of “jungle raj” returning to Uttar Pradesh if the SP came to power. That is why these communities voted for the BJP,” the BSP chief had said.
