Struggling to be counted as the main challenger to the BJP in UP assembly elections Bahujan Samaj party chief Mayawati has said her party alone can stop Narendra Modi by defeating the BJP in the state assembly elections. BSP chief Mayawati maintained that neither an Samajwadi Party -Congress alliance nor a united SP can check BJP and that only her party would render a crushing blow to Modi government by defeating the saffron party in UP so that it does not take “immature” steps like the note ban.
Mayawati also issued a fervent appeal to the electorate of UP, Uttarakhand and Punjab to give her birthday gift by voting for the party in the coming assembly elections, BSP supremo Mayawati also rolled out several sops for the people of UP saying if her party is voted to power then her government will give ‘ cash’ instead of ‘ mobile phones and laptops. Today was also her 61st birthday which was a very low key affair as the model code of conduct is in force in the state due to the assembly elections. As per established tradition of the BSP Mayawati also released the blue book carrying the memoires of her struggle in public life.
“BJP should prepare itself to face the bad days ahead in UP, after the assembly elections. The BJP in UP will met the same as in Bihar, as the electorate of UP, ruined by the demonetisation will give the saffron party a crippling blow in the state assembly elections’’, said BSP chief Mayawati in a press conference here on Sunday.
“The coming elections in UP will be very important in many respects. If BSP comes to power with clear majority in UP then it will check BJP and the central government to a large extent from taking decisions like note ban and SP’s goonda and jungle raj will be wiped out from the state,” said Mayawati.
“BSP is the only party which can stop the march of BJP in the state. Its government in the state will render a big blow to the BJP and it will not return to power at the Centre easily in 2019 and it will never dare again to take anti-people decisions like,” she said.
Amid talks of a possible tie up between SP and Congress, the BSP president made it clear that her party will go it alone in the polls. “We will fight the elections on our own, there will be no alliances,” she said adding `` UP electorate will have to be vigilant from the antics and allurements in manifestos of the political rivals and tacit understanding of opponents, she cautioned.
“SP is widely known as a party of one family, region and a particular caste. Since the day one of the Sam,ajwadi party government in UP, the jungle raj has been prevailing here but it has to be seen that SP and Congress are now seeking votes in the name of such a tainted face, that is, Akhilesh Yadav of SP government,” she said.
“The people of the state have to decide whether they have to make such a tainted face as the chief minister of the state under whom Muzaffarnagar, Dadri, Mathura and Bulandshahr incidents took place or they will vote the clean face of BSP on whose coming to power all communal and goonda elements either flee from the state or run for cover,” she asserted. She said neither SP-Congress alliance nor a united SP will be able to check BJP and voting for them will directly benefit BJP.
The announcement by Mayawati to give cash instead of mobile phone and laptops met with sharp criticism from the political parties. The state BJP general secretary Vijay Bahadur Pathak said that Mayawati has violated the model code of conduct for election by offering inducement to the voters with cash and the Election commission should take cognizance of the statement of Mayawati and take the action.
The BJP leader also claimed that Mayawati has also accepted in her speech that BSP can prevent BJP from coming to power which proves that she has admitted that BJP was coming to power in UP.