The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will be compelled to go it alone if it does not get a “respectable” number of seats in the anti-BJP alliance that is shaping up before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati said Sunday.
The BSP chief also said that instances of mob lynching in the name of cow protection were a “blot on democracy” and accused BJP Governments in various States of being indifferent to the problem.
At a Press conference, held for the first time in her new accommodation here after she was forced to vacate her sprawling bungalow on Supreme Court orders, Mayawati made clear her party might be compelled to go it alone if it does not get a “respectable number” of seats in the anti-BJP alliance.
“Our party is not against the alliance, but our stand is very clear that we will ally with a political party only if we get a respectable share of seats. Otherwise, our party feels it better to contest the elections alone,” she said.
On the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and the upcoming Assembly elections in certain states, Mayawati said, the effort of the Opposition parties will be to stop the BJP from coming to power at any cost.
Maywati targeted the BJP claiming that its Governments in the Centre and states had “worsened” the condition of the people by showing them false dreams.
“These Governments have done no good to people barring a few industrialists,” she alleged adding that “both the NDA and the previous UPA Governments were equally responsible for shielding the corrupt”.
Mayawati also said the “increasing tendency” of mobs indulging in lynching in the name of cow protection in the “BJP-ruled States” was a blot on democracy. Yet the Governments (in these states) are exercising laxity and are being indifferent to it, she claimed.