Mayawati at Saharanpur: Minority votes to SP will favour BJP in Uttar Pradesh
BSP chief Mayawati has warned Muslims against voting for the SP-Congress alliance saying this will help the BJP in Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
BSP president Mayawati. (Photo: PTI)
Saharanpur,UPDATED: Feb 12, 2017 17:50 IST
Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati is using the BJP's anti-Muslim image as deterrent for the minority voters in Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
Addressing a rally in Saharanpur in Wester in Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati warned Muslims that if they voted for the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance, they would be favouring the BJP in the ongoing assembly elections.
Mayawati said, "(SP founder) Mulayam Singh Yadav has insulted Shivpal Yadav out of his love for son (Akhilesh Yadav). This infighting will damage the Samajwadi Party's prospects in the polls. In such a scenario if minority community votes for the SP, it will only benefit the BJP."
WHAT ELSE MAYAWATI SAID: 10 POINTS FROM SAHARANPUR RALLY
- The minority community should not prefer the BSP to the SP. The BSP's vote bank is fixed and if the minority votes for the party, the Dalit-Muslim combination will be the decisive factor.
- There is a jungle raj in Uttar Pradesh. The state has witnessed large scale land grabbing, atrocities against women and communal riots. Dadri incident and bloody clashes in Mathura happened under present government. The BSP will bring an end to the jungle raj by putting all the culprits in jail.
- The Samajwadi Party has carried out half-baked development programmes. They are more interested in publicity than doing their job.
- All the good works done by the Samajwadi Party were initiated by the previous BSP government. They have just changed the name of the old schemes.
- The SP and the Congress were also responsible for communal tension and riots in different parts of Uttar Pradesh. The BSP will establish the rule of law in Uttar Pradesh.
- The BSP is winning with flying colours in the first phase of assembly polls. The trend shows that the BSP will emerge as the largest party and achieve absolute majority.
- The BJP will do away with reservation for the backward and Dalit castes in jobs. The BSP will always fight for Dalits and the poor.
- The BJP has not fulfilled its promise to bring back black money stashed in foreign banks and distribute it among the poor by waiving off their loans and debts.
- The middle class and the poor have not yet recovered from the jolt delivered by demonetisation three months ago. It has hampered the economy of the country. Before implementing demonetisation, the BJP helped big industrialists settle their black money.
- The BSP government will give favourable posting to women employees of the state government by taking into consideration the place of their spouses' work.
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