Mayawati defends alliance with SP, slams BJP

Lucknow: BSP president Mayawati, on Monday, said that the newly forged friendship between BSP and SP was in national interest and the BJP would not be able to divide the two political parties now.

“We have joined hands with Samajwadi Party in national interest and not for any selfish interest. The BJP will not be able to create division between us by pulling out skeletons from the cupboard,” Ms Mayawati said while talking to reporters at her residence on Monday.

Ms Mayawati, while addressing a meeting of party coordinators earlier, underlined the need for an alliance and asked them to strengthen the social alliance between the vote banks of the two parties and gave clear indications that the two parties would ally for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Ms Mayawati alleged that worried over the Samajwadi Party-BSP alliance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was now using Dr B R Ambedkar’s name for political gains. 

Ms Mayawati said that the personality of Dr Ambedkar was humanitarian and impartial which cannot be a reality in BJP and RSS rule.

She said the ideology of BJP and RSS was against the constitution, caste and community. She said public did not rely on them for long and now in the BJP rule, Dalits and backwards were lagging behind in all sectors.

“In the past four and a half years of their government, the BJP has been continuously indulging in theatrics on issues related to Dalits and backwards who have been attacked like never before. Any more drama on this issue will not get any political mileage for the BJP”, she said.