Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Friday continued her offensive in opposition to Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav over his assertion that he needed her to turn into the prime minister and questioned how somebody who couldn’t fulfil his personal dream of changing into the chief minister will handle to grasp the aspirations of others.
Reacting to Yadav’s assertion that he needed her to turn into the prime minister and that the SP had solid an alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls for this, Mayawati, in a tweet in Hindi, mentioned, “When the SP chief could not fulfil his own dream of becoming the chief minister (of Uttar Pradesh) even after securing the votes of Muslims and Yadavs and forming an alliance with several parties, how can he fulfil the dream of others to become the prime minister.”
In a associated tweet, the previous Uttar Pradesh chief minister questioned how a celebration that managed to win solely 5 seats in Uttar Pradesh within the final Lok Sabha polls regardless of stitching up an alliance with the BSP will make her the prime minister. “Therefore, they need to stop making such childish statements,” she added.
The BSP and the SP contested the 2019 common election in an alliance however parted methods subsequently and have usually hit out at one another since then.
In one other tweet, the BSP president, who on Thursday mentioned she by no means aspired to turn into the president however would slightly choose changing into the prime minister or the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh to grasp her targets for uplifting the downtrodden, mentioned, “Irrespective of whether I become the chief minister or the prime minister in the future, I can never become the president of the country in the interest of the weaker and neglected sections. Therefore, the SP’s dream of having its own chief minister in Uttar Pradesh will never be fulfilled.”
Replying to reporters’ questions on Thursday about Mayawati’s aspiration to turn into the prime minister, Yadav had mentioned, “I am happy with it (the statement). I also wanted that. Last time (in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls), the alliance (with BSP) was forged for this. Had the alliance continued, people of the Bahujan Samaj, the BSP and those who follow the principles of BR Ambedkar would have seen who would become the prime minister.”
Earlier within the day, Mayawati had mentioned, “I have not spent my life in comfort and have struggled to work on the path shown by Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar and Kanshi Ram to ensure that their followers and the downtrodden stand on their feet. Everyone knows that this can be done not by becoming the president, but by becoming the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and the prime minister of the country.”
In Mainpuri on Wednesday, Yadav had alleged that the BSP had transferred its votes to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on this 12 months’s Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls and now, it will likely be attention-grabbing to see whether or not the saffron occasion makes Mayawati the president or not in return.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”