The Uttar Pradesh government has dared Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati to announce that her party will support infiltrators to get Indian citizenship and also criticised her for equating BJP with Congress, saying her party had supported the United Progressive Alliance at the Centre.
“Does Mayawati oppose citizenship to Hindu and other refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan? She should also clarify whether she wants infiltrators to be Indian citizen,” UP government spokesperson and state Energy Minister Shrikant Sharma said in a written statement here on Wednesday.
The statement was in response to Mayawati’s statement on her 64th birthday in which she asked the Centre why Muslims of Pakistan facing atrocities were not covered in the recently passed Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
“The BSP chief’s statement clearly shows that she is trying to take political mileage in the name of infiltrators,” he said.
Sharma also slammed Mayawati for equating BJP with Congress by calling them “two sides of the same coin”.
“Mayawati has no right to say this because she had extended support to the UPA from outside for 10 years and now she was trying to confuse people by criticising the Congress. During its 10-year regime, the UPA looted the country and the BSP did the same in UP,” he said.
Sharma said the basic difference between the BJP and the Congress was the Narendra Modi government cared for the poor while the Congress’ policies are anti-people.
However the BJP leader wished Mayawati on her birthday.