Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati, on Sunday, hit out at both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress and also made a direct attack on Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
“It seems that people in western Uttar Pradesh did not know that the muth in which Yogi mostly lives during his stay in Gorakhpur is not less than a huge bungalow. It would be better if Yogiji also tells this fact to the people while campaigning in western UP,” the BSP chief tweeted while questioning the praise of his simplicity made by Yogi Adityanath during his campaign in western UP.
Further attacking Yogi over his tall claims of doing several welfare work for the poor and weaker section of society, Mayawati tweeted, “While praising work done by his government for the poor, it would be good if CM should also disclose outstanding work done during her government regarding giving houses and lands to the poor and landless people.”
Through another tweet, Mayawati said that in two phases of Manyawar Kanshiram Saheri Garib Aswas Yojana, over 1.5 lakh houses were given to the poor and weaker sections. Besides, she said, in Sarvjan Hitai Garib Awas Yojana also, several lakh landless families were benefited.
The BSP supremo said that her party had always launched a maximum number of welfare programmes for the downtrodden section of society irrespective of caste or religion.
Further attacking the Congress, Mayawati termed it as a “vote katva" party while taking a jibe at Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s statement on Congress chief minister face in UP and later withdrawing it within a few hours.
In a couple of tweets in Hindi on Sunday morning, Mayawati wrote, “The condition of the Congress party in the elections of the UP assembly has remained so bad that their so-called CM candidate has changed the stand within a few hours.”
“In such a situation, it would be better that people do not spoil their vote by voting for Congress, but vote for BSP unilaterally," she appealed to the people
She further said, “In UP, parties like Congress are only vote-cutting parties in the eyes of the people. In such a situation, Bharatiya Janata Party should be out of power in UP in the interest of the society and a government headed by BSP, which is the number one party in the elections, should replace them."
It may be mentioned that earlier Congress also dumped BSP, claiming it to be a B-team of the BJP and even questioned Mayawati that if her party was so concerned about the poor and weaker section than where she was when people were suffering from hunger and several lakh people died in pandemic or when the goons under patronage of present government were attacking the modesty of Dalit girls and even killing them.