New Delhi: In a calculated move with her eyes clearly set on next year’s Assembly elections in UP, BSP supremo Mayawati supported the Congress in the crucial trial of strength in the Uttarakhand Assembly on Tuesday.
With her two MLAs, the BSP chief virtually played the role of kingmaker, aware that in order to dethrone the Samajwadi Party, led by self-styled “Muslims’ messiah” Mulayam Singh Yadav, she needs the support of a huge chunk of the state’s 18.5 Muslim voters. By backing the Congress, she signalled she was making all-out efforts to stop the “communal BJP”.
The BJP had tried to confuse the scenario by extending support to BSP candidates in the upcoming Hardwar panchayat polls. The party had been claiming that Ms Maywati was “not averse to doing business” with the BJP.
