Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) chief Mayawati’s rally at Ranchi’s State Assembly ground on Saturday proved a flop show with supporter strength of less than 1,000 people across the State attending here to listen to her. However, Mayawati blamed the “bandh” called by opponents due to which her supporters from every corner could not gather.
Interestingly, the bandh was a “fictitious” reason described by local BSP members to their leader for not being able to bring adequate supporters.
“Jharkhand which used to be part of Bihar State had been an underdeveloped State. None of the Government has given attention to dalits, tribals and those belonging to financially weak background. Whichever party of Jharkhand had been in power in this State and in the Parliament has always neglected the mass. Even today, this region is underdeveloped”, Mayawati said.
She added, “The representatives of this State had never raised voice on behalf of its people. But, I and my party members had raised the ‘special State status’ demand for Jharkhand in the last Parliament session during the argument on States suffering from acute financial crunch. Unfortunately, the Centre ruled by Congress did not consider our demand”.
According to BSP supremo, Jharkhand denizens are equally responsible for this “Government’s negligence” because whichever candidate is elected in State and parliamentary elections never proves as the ‘right candidate’.
“Several parties have governed Jharkhand. You have experienced their work. Now give a chance to our party which had ruled in Uttar Pradesh four times under my aegis and brought positive changes. Be it Congress or BJP or any other political party, all try to lure you with promises through election manifestos. In that attraction, you all vote for wrong parties”, she concluded her 15 minutes speech with this request.