Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati vehemently denied tweeting a picture of herself with Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav calling for Opposition unity.
“The tweeter account is not our official site and the entire post was malafied and derogatory,” Mayawati said in a statement released here on Monday morning.
She said that the BSP always issues press statement to raise its voice on any issue and has never tweeted.
“Besides, our slogan is ‘Sarvajan Hitaya, Sarvajan Sukhaya’ while the tweet has the slogan of ‘Bahujan hitaya, bahujan sukhaya’ which also proves that it is not our official site’’.
However, in her release, Mayawati did not clarify whether she will be attending the opposition rally in Patna on August 27 or not.
However sources in the Party confirmed that BSP leaders would not participate in the Bihar rally.
It may be mentioned that media reports from Delhi on Monday said that a BSP tweet on Sunday shared a poster which says, “Samajik Nyay ke Samarthan me Vipaksh Ek Ho’ with photographs of Mayawati, SP president Akhilesh Yadav, RJD president lalu Prasad Yadav and his son Tejsvi Yadav, JD(U) leader Sharad Yadav, West Bengal chief minister Mamta Banerjee and Congress president Sonia. It also carried pictures of Dalit icons and the BSP logo.