So Much For Opposition Unity? BSP To Fight Polls Alone If Anti-BJP Alliance Doesn’t Give ‘Respectable’ Number Of Seats

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati says that her party will contest by itself if a ‘respectable’ number of seats isn’t given by the anti-BJP alliance, for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections of 2019.

“Our party is not against the alliance, but our stand is very clear that we will ally with a political party only if we get a respectable share of seats. Otherwise, our party feels it better to contest the elections alone,” she said, as quoted in The Hindu.

She has repeatedly been targeting the ruling government for not acting against mob lynchings and atrocities against members of the Dalit community. She accused the BJP of selling false dreams to the common man and compared the performance of the NDA to UPA.

Accusing the BJP of taking advantage of the demise of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Mayawati said the BJP is using these ‘diversionary tactics’ to deviate from the agenda.

“If Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP followed in the footsteps of Vajpayee and ran the government accordingly, there would not have been religious frenzy and communal incidents. Nor would there have been the rule of mobocracy,” she told the media on 16 September (Sunday) at a press conference in Lucknow.