Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Thursday hit out at rival Samajwadi Party (SP) for “spreading rumors” that she is vying for the president’s post while blaming it for the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) return to power in Uttar Pradesh.
“The SP is dreaming of making me the President so that its party chief [Akhilesh Yadav]’s path to becoming the chief minister is clear. It should stop dreaming of making the government [in Uttar Pradesh] or me the president,” she said at a press conference.
Mayawati said she is committed to fulfilling the dreams and ideals of Bhimrao Ambedkar and BSP founder Kanshi Ram. “I am fighting for the empowerment and upliftment of the weaker sections. I can work for the welfare of the deprived communities by becoming the chief minister or the prime minister but not the president.”
She said Yadav has realised Muslims and Other Backward Classes (OBC) cannot be misguided and that SP cannot form the government in Uttar Pradesh. “He is trying to leave the country and settle abroad.” She said SP got a bulk of the Muslim and Yadav votes in the February-March assembly elections. “The SP also formed pre-poll alliances with various political parties to grab the power but failed…”
