launching her Mission 2017 campaign on the 125th birth anniversary of Dr B R Ambedkar by hitting out at BJP, Congress and the Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati, said the party’s only target is come to power in Uttar Pradesh, to end the woes of people of the state. “Muslims, backwards and upper caste should support the BSP in 2017 Assembly elections of the state, as BJP government at the Centre and the SP government in UP have failed to end the miseries of people,” she added. Mayawati, in an aggressive speech made here on Tuesdaymorning, claimed that BJP is on a downfall trend in the country for its failure to fulfill the promise of ‘Acche din,’ while UP government promoted criminalisation during its over three-year regime. She also pulled the opposition parties for celebrating the 125 birth anniversary of Dr Ambedkar.
Besides, Mayawati said that when the entire country is reeling under severe crisis due to unseasonal rains leading to mass deaths of farmers, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is enjoying his foreign trip and similarly, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav too is going on a foreign trip.” These parties have no concern for the farmers,” she alleged, adding that handing over a cheque of Rs 63 and similar to the farmers as compensation for their crop loss is a joke with poor people of the state.
Revealing that there is a nexus between the BJP and SP, the BSP president said,” I can predict that before the 2017 Assembly polls, there would be a stage managed communal violence in UP, so that both the BJP as well as SP get political mileage.” Addressing a gathering at Dr B R Ambedkar Samajik Parivartan Sthal here on the occasion of 125 th birth anniversary of Dr Ambedkar, Mayawati, who faced a debacle in the lok Sabha polls, again championed for Bhaichara agenda to connect the upper caste and others in the party fold in the coming assembly polls. She also alleged that in order to woo the Dalit voters, BJP could announce Bharat Ratna for BSP founder Kanshi Ram before the 2017 Assembly polls, for which her party is demanding for the past several years.
The BSP president charged the BJP of targeting the Muslims through Shiv Sena.” The recent statement in Shiv Sena mouthpiece Samana that voting rights of the Muslims should be withdrawn to avoid vote politics, is a conspiracy against the minorities and a clear violation of the Constitution.” She demanded that BJP should immediately throw out the Shiv Sena from the coalition government at the Centre otherwise if would be proved that they are behind the conspiracy.
On the occasion Mayawati challenged the media and the opposition parties for spreading fake news that she had floated some companies and even owned a new channel or a news papers. “I will resign from politics if anyone can prove that there is any company or news channel in my name. If my family members run a business, then it is not of my concern,” she claimed.
She also alleged that media would again rake up controversy on BSP before the elections like they have done in the past. “The raking up the old fake statement of Kanshi Ram that he suggested construction of toilet at the disputed site in Ayodhya or BSP leadership collecting money through donations or selling the assembly and lok Sabha tickets,” she said while clarifying that Kanshi Ram had never gave such statement and the funds is collected by the party through donations as we don’t take funds from industrial houses.
Mayawati spared no words to criticize the BJP and Congress for celebrating the Ambedkar anniversary when they had insulted him till his death and thereafter by denying him Bharat Ratna awards. “ Congress did everything to insult Dr Ambedkar during his life and even after his death they refused to accord him Bharat Ratna honour. It was during V P Singh regime and on the pressure of BSP, Dr Ambedkar was given the Bharat Ratna award,” she said. The BJP too did not support Dr Ambedkar when he was accorded the Bharat Ratna and withdrew support from the V P Singh government. She also disclosed that due to the indifferent attitude of the Hindu fundamentalists , Dr Ambedkar was forced to embraces Buddhism.
Mayawati also criticized Mulayam Singh Yadav and his Samajwadi Party government for insulting the dalit icons.” The present UP government had changed the name of the development and welfare projects on the name of dalit icons and ignoring the maintenance of the memorials and parks on the name of these icons,” she alleged.
Further hitting out at the SP government, the former UP Chief Minister said that the entry fee money collected at different memorials and parks in the state capital is not being used for its maintenance or payment to the workers there but instead it is being used in Saifai for entertainment programmes. On the occasion, Mayawati also awared the people about the big promises to be made by the politicial parties during the 2017 polls which will never be fulfilled.” BJP’s promise to give Rs 15 lakhs to each people while SP promised to give jobs were never fulfilled,” she claimed.However, the BSP president was very critical on the media with even claiming that when over one lakh people were attending this function, the news channels were saying that there is just a few thousands. later Mayawati garlanded the statue of Dr Ambedkar and gave him foral tributes. She also said that Dr Ambedkar was the messiah of the poor and dalits.