Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that BSP chief was approached by his party for a tie-up in the recent Uttar Pradesh assembly election and was also offered the chief ministerial post but she didn’t respond to them.
Hitting out at the BSP chief, the former Congress president said alleged that Mayawati gave a clear passage to the ruling BJP in the state because of “the CBI, the ED and Pegasus”.
“We gave a message to Mayawati to form an alliance and asked her to become the chief minister. She did not even talk to us,” he said.
“But Mayawati ji is saying that I will not fight for it .. she gave a clear passage to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Why? (because of ) CBI, the ED and Pegasus,” he added.
In the February-March Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, Congress suffered a crushing defeat, winning only two seats out of 403 and got a vote share of less than 2.5 percent, where the BJP retained power. As many as 97 per cent of Congress candidates lost their security deposit.
The BSP won just one seat and a vote share of around 13 per cent. Nearly 72 per cent of its candidates also lost their deposit in the election.
Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party emerged as the main challenger to the BJP in the polls.
