Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati said that people, who are fed up with government's failure to control; crime were blaming themselves for having supported the Samajwadi Party during the 2012 assembly elections.
''The people of the state are now forced to rethink about their decision to support the SP in a big way during the last assembly elections after the failure of the SP government,'' she said. Addressing MPs, legislators and senior leaders of lucknow and Kanpur divisions along with Bundelkhand region, Mayawati said the only work the SP government was doing Mto implicate BSP leaders and poor people of the state in false cases.
Asking the party leaders to go to the people to seek their support for the lok Sabha elections, she said that the BSP's ideology of Sarv Samaj should be publicised in a big way to draw the support of all castes and communities for the party in the lok Sabha polls. Mayawati reviewed the preparations being made to strengthen party's base in these two divisions and Bundelkhand region in view of coming lok Sabha elections.
During the meeting, BSP leaders informed Mayawati that the crime rate was increasing day-by-day and incidents like sexual assault, abduction and killings have gone up. They said some anti-social elements had attacked policemen and senior administrative officials while the police remained a mute spectator. The BSP president was holding region-wise meetings with party leaders to review party's preparation for the lok Sabha elections.