Give me power I will give Vidarbha, says Mayawati

NAGPUR:Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief and three-time chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati, promised to create separate state of Vidarbha if her party came to power in Maharashtra. Addressing a massive election meeting here on Friday, she said, “No other party has heeded this long-pending demand of a vast majority of people from this region. As a result, Vidarbha has remained underdeveloped.The BSP can fulfil this demand but people must give us power,” she said.
Mayawati made a strong pitch for her party, which till date has not won a single seat though it is contesting for last three elections on almost all 288 seats. She exhorted her cadres present in full strength at the Kasturchand Park grounds not to fall prey to false promises given in poll manifestos by parties like the BJP and the Congress. “They give promises that they never fulfil. That is why the BSP never releases poll manifesto. We do not make empty talk, we deliver results and believe in action,” she said.
The BSP chief slammed the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for winning the Lok Sabha elections by making false promises. “In the first 100 days, Modi has not done anything to convince that he would keep promises that he has made,” she said and warned the voters that the BJP may try the same tricks again to mislead them in the assembly elections.
“BSP founder the late Kanshiram started his mission from this state to empower the downtrodden by reviving Ambedkar’s political thought. But sadly, people here (mainly Dalits and OBCs) who have remained oppressed since independence are yet to realize that the master key to power is with them – by making the right use of the right to vote. Kanshiram succeeded in UP and as chief minister I gave jobs to lakhs of people by effectively implementing reservation policies and bringing honour to the dispossessed and weaker sections. All this can happen in this state if you elect the BSP to power,” said Mayawati.