BSP, not divided SP, can defeat BJP: Maya

Tribune News Service

Lucknow, January 15

Claiming to be the only political party in a position to single-handedly defeat the BJP in Uttar Pradesh, BSP national president Mayawati today urged people not to waste their vote by supporting a divided Samajwadi Party with or without an alliance with the Congress.

Addressing a press conference on the occasion of her 61st birthday today, Mayawati said it was now the chance for the people of UP and other poll-bound states to expresses their discontent over demonetisation to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP.

“By defeating the BJP, people can give a reality check to PM Modi so that he does not indulge in such anti-people decision during the remaining term at the Centre,” said Mayawati.

Warning against what she described as “political conspiracies” by way of the BJP’s enticing promises in its election manifesto to win the UP elections, Mayawati cautioned people not to fall in the trap by remembering Modi’s unfulfilled election promises made before the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

Promising cash instead of laptops and mobile phones to the poor, Mayawati said the financial assistance would help the poor buy want they really need. While she claimed that the BSP never released manifestoes as it believed in “doing rather than promising”. Yet she guaranteed government and non-government employment to the poor and needy instead of unemployment allowance as well as many sops to the farmers like increased MSP for their produce, especially for the sugarcane farmers.