Mayawati launches Agra campaign

Lucknow: BSP president Mayawati, on Sunday, a blistering attack on the BJP and Congress as she launched her election campaign with a rally in Agra.

While she said that the Modi government could even wage a war against Pakistan to win the elections in Uttar Pradesh, she slammed that Congress for making Mrs Sheila Dikshit its CM candidate since Mrs Dikshit has already shown her approval of ‘people from UP and Bihar’ “The Congress ruled Uttar Pradesh for 37 years and was voted out of power because of its wrong policies,” she pointed out.

Attacking the BJP , she said, “The BJP wants to end reservation but the BSP will never let this happen. The Modi government has waived off loans of capitalists and industrialists but has not fulfilled the promises it made to the common man in the 2014 elections. Mr Modi had promised to bring back black money stashed abroad within 100 days, he has assured cheap food grains for the poor but none of this has happened.”

She took on the BJP for pretending to be Dalit-friendly but actually working against the deprived and downtrodden sections of society.

“They eat food at Dalit homes and present some people as followers of Buddha to send a confusing signal among Dalits. The BJP’s Dhamma Yatra has flopped because Dalits can see the true face of the party. Atrocities on Dalits have increased considerably after the BJP came to power at the centre but no steps have been taken to check this,” she said.