Bahujan Samaj Party(BSP) chief Mayawati cautioned party cadres and supporters to be wary of conspiracies hatched by the Bharatiya Janta Party, Samajwadi Party and the Congress, saying that the rivals have taken to fabricated survey reports to run down the BSP in the coming polls.
"These parties have the support of industrialists and capitalists running news channels. Thus they are trying to influence voters by releasing set up surveys," Mayawati asserted while addressing senior leaders and workers at the state party office in lucknow on Thursday.
Mayawati's diatribe came in the wake of a survey report telecast by a private news channel on Wednesday, predicting that the BJP will be emerge as the largest party and bag around 183 seats but fall short of majority, while the BSP will come on the second slot with 124 seats.
Afer reviewing the party's recent programmes, Mayawati said, "We have to get absolute majority in the Assembly polls with the support of Dalits, Muslims and Sarva Samaj after thwarting SP, BJP and Congress conspiracies."
The BSP chief asked her cadres to increase their reach also to the upper castes so that the party could get a clear majority. Announcing holding of regular 'bhai-chara' committee meetings to woo Brahmins, Mayawati entrusted general secretary and Rajya Sabha member Satish Chandra Mishra to woo the upper caste members through these meeting. She also harped on a determined campaign to reclaim Muslim votes.
BSP general secretary Satish Chandra Mishra will be holding 'bhai chara' committee workers meet in Sitapur, Allahabad, Fatehpur and Kanpur starting from Friday. Mishra would address the first meeting at Mishrik (Sitapur) on Friday, at Jasra (Allahabad) on Saturday, at Dhata (Fatehpur)on Monday and at Ghatampur (Kanpur Dehat) on Tuesday.
All these places have sizable number of upper caste voters, particularly Brahmins.