Turning the tables on the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Thursday said that both parties were hand in glove and were fooling the voters to defeat the SP-BSP alliance by jointly fighting against alliance candidates.
“Congress and BJP are cut from the same cloth. I urge voters to vote for alliance candidates instead of Congress and ensure that BJP’s defeat is certain,” the BSP chief said in a statement issued in Lucknow on Thursday morning.
“We all saw how Rahul hugged the Prime Minister in Parliament. Both of them are evidently in collusion, but this time, voters are cautious and hence both will be wiped out” she added.
Congressmen think it is not a problem if BJP candidates win elections but SP-BSP alliance candidates should not win polls, the former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh alleged.
Mayawati also deflated the BJP government’s claim of getting Masood Azhar listed as a global terrorist, saying “Everyone knows how the BJP made him a guest and released him during Kandhar hijacking crisis. But now, during the polls, they are trying to derive political mileage out of it which is condemnable.”
The BSP chief also criticised the opposition for invoking Dr BR Ambedkar in poll speeches. “For the BJP, Congress and other parties, Dr Ambedkar could be for vote bank politics but for the BSP, Dr Ambedkar is the soul of respect,” Mayawati said.
The BSP chief further said that now the BJP and other parties were claiming themselves to be followers of Ambedkar to seek votes, which will never happen. “People know their real intentions and their conspiracy will not actualise,” she said.