Maya snubs Cong over ''7-seat offer'' in UP, says Cong spreading confusion

Tribune News Service
New Delhi, March 18

On the day when Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra began her poll campaign in Uttar Pradesh, BSP chief Mayawati snubbed the grand old party’s “seven-seat offer in the state” saying the BSP and SP have no truck with the Congress in the state.

“The Congress should stop so raging these myths and compulsively showing that it has anything to do with the BSP and SP alliance in UP. Congress is free to go alone in UP and field candidates in all 80 seats. We have nothing to do with the Congress,” Mayawati tweeted.

Then former UP chief minister said BSP and SP have no pact with the Congress either in UP or anywhere in India.

“I again want to tell our workers not to fall into the Congress trap and myths. The BSP and SP are capable of defeating the BJP in Uttar Pradesh by themselves and have nothing to do with Congress on any seat. Congress should also stop spreading these needless myths,” she said.

“Congress should not spread confusion by compulsorily leaving seven seats for the alliance in UP,” said Mayawati in the tweet.

On Sunday, UPCC president Raj Babbar had announced that as a reciprocal gesture the party would not contest the seven seats in which the top leaders of the alliance parties would be contesting.

The SP-BSP alliance had earlier announced not to field candidates in the constituencies of Rae Bareli and Amethi represented by UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress president Rahul Gandhi.