Hailing the performance of her party candidate in the recent Azamgarh parliamentary bypoll, Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati, on Monday, asked party workers to keep the momentum and prevent Muslims from being misled in the 2024 general elections.
“The determination and courage with which all the BSP workers, office-bearers and party candidate Shah Alam alias Guddu Jamali have fought the Azamgarh Lok Sabha bypoll needs to be maintained till 2024 Lok Sabha elections as part of the resolve while maintaining election readiness,” Mayawati said in a tweet in Hindi.
In another tweet, she said, not only in Azamgarh, BSP’s struggle and efforts had to be continued in the entire UP to convert the groundwork into votes.
"In this sequence, it is also important to protect a particular community from being misled in the upcoming elections,” she said, in an apparent reference to Muslim voters.
Mayawati had on Sunday said that the outcome of the bypoll had proved that only BSP had the “ground force” to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party in the state.
"The UP bypoll result has once again proved that only BSP has the ‘ground force’ to defeat BJP here. The party’s effort to prove this to the entire community will continue so that the much awaited political change can take place in the state,” the BSP chief said.
She tweeted, "The ruling party wins most of the bypolls yet the tough fight the Bahujan Samaj Party has given to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the Samajwadi Party in Azamgarh is commendable. All party workers have to move forward with more strength."
The BSP contested only the Azamgarh bypoll. Party’s candidate Shah Alam alias Guddu Jamali stood third with 29.27 per cent votes there. The BJP candidates won both the Azamgarh and Rampur seats in the bypolls, the counting for which were held on Sunday.