Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati ruled out alliance with any political party for the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, stating that she does not see any difference between any party in the poll-bound state.
“BSP won’t have any ‘chunavi samjhauta’ (pre-poll agreement) with any party. We’ll contest on our own. We are entering into agreement with people of all sections of society to bring them together – this alliance is permanent. I don’t intend to enter into alliance with any party,” Mayawati said.
She exuded confidence that her party will return to power with a promising mandate like in 2007.
“We don’t see any difference between the Samajwadi Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party. They are two sides of the same coin. They just want to make the polls a Hindu-Muslim matter. We are confident that we will get an absolute majority, just like we got in 2007,” the former chief minister said.
The BSP leader said that the people of UP will not fall for the poll promises of either the Congress or the SP, let along the ruling BJP dispensation.
“The people of the state aren’t going to easily believe the several poll promises made by Congress party, just like SP. Had Congress fulfilled even 50% of their poll promises, they wouldn’t have been out of power at the Centre, UP and in most of the states of the nation,” Mayawati said.
The former CM claimed that the BJP government in the state is inaugurating projects across the state just to woo the electorate.
“As polls are coming close, drama by BJP and other rival parties to lure people of the state has begun. The truth is that announcement of projects and inauguration of incomplete works in last 1.5-2 months by BJP governments, at the Centre and in the state, will continue until polls,” she added.
