Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati, within hours of the release of the election manifesto attacked the Samajwadi party saying it was a mere formality and `publicity stunt’’. Mayawati however appreciated the chief minister Akhilesh Yadav for criticising the statues of the elephant saying `` Akhilesh gave free publicity to the elephant’’, the election symbol of the BSP.
Ridiculing the claim of the Samajwadi Party that `Kaam bolta hai (the work speaks for itself) Mayawati said `` during the last five years of the SP government headed by a tainted leader only `Apradh’ (crime) bolta hai.
``SP during its five year rule had made a mockery of its previous manifesto by promoting the anarchy, jungle raj , criminal and communal elements so they had no moral right to issue yet another manifesto’’, said Mayawati here on Sunday adding`` it’s unfortunate and daring attempt by the SP to deceive the people’’.
``Before releasing the election manifesto, Samajwadi party should have done some introspection to ascertain whether it had fulfilled the promises it had made in its previous election manifesto’’, said Mayawati in a statement issued here on Monday.
Questioning the claims about the development made in the manifesto Mayawati said ``it is ridiculous to claim that 22 crore people of the state benefitted by the development as only a particular family and people of one particular community were benefitted during the SP rule’’.
Mayawati alleged that following the footsteps of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the SP government using the state funded publicity campaign inaugurated incomplete projects and laid the foundation of many projects for which there was no financial provision in the state budget.
BSP chief alleged that SP by indulging in the game of deception to hide its failures and is trying to mislead the people by making false promises to the electorate. She said this time people of the state could no longer be taken for ride and they will punish the tainted SP government during the elections.