BSP to go it alone on all seats

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, September 9

Even before the announcement of the Haryana elections, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) said today said it would go alone in the state, dashing hopes of the Congress for any potential pre-poll alliance.

Although state Congress leaders, including state chief Kumari Selja and Congress Legislature Party leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda, said today that they had not met the BSP chief, All India Congress Committee sources said the Congress was keeping the hopes of alliance in the state alive after the BSP severed ties with the Dushyant Chautala-led JJP.

Congress leaders, however, didn’t openly speak of alliance possibilities or aspirations, keeping the cards close to their chests.

BSP chief Mayawati had said two days ago that her party, a national outfit, had walked out of the pact with the JJP on account of latter’s unreasonable conduct in seat sharing.

Today again, the BSP leader and party’s all-India general secretary Satish Chandra Mishra, a Rajya Sabha MP, said the BSP would contest all 90 Haryana Assembly seats on its own and would not have any alliance with anyone.