Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Tuesday laughed off Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) recent announcement and inauguration of various projects saying it will not help the party expand its voter base in the forthcoming Assembly elections in several states.
She also hoped for a positive outcome for her party and its alliance partner – Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) – in the next year’s Punjab Assembly elections.
Reacting to the BJP’s string of recent programmes, mainly in Varanasi, Mayawati said, “The back-to-back announcements, foundation stone laying of new projects and inaugurations of half-finished projects by Central and State governments just before the announcement of the Assembly elections are not going to help that party (BJP) expand its voter base.”
“I hope that the alliance of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will come to power in Punjab with the full majority in the next Assembly elections, under the leadership of Sukhbir Singh Badal,” she added.
Punjab, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Goa and Manipur will see Assembly elections next year and BJP is a key player in all the states.
Mayawati’s remarks have come a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated phase I of the Kashi Vishwanath corridor.
PM Modi is currently on a two-day visit to his parliamentary constituency Varanasi where he inaugurated phase 1 of the newly-constructed Kashi Vishwanath Dham at a cost of around Rs 339 crores on Monday.
