Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati has said that the Muslim society has made a big “huge mistake” by trusting the Samajwadi Party (SP) more than the BSP, the repeatedly tried party in Uttar Pradesh. BSP chief Mayawati said that the results in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections came against the expectations of the BSP, but the leaders and workers of the party need not panic or get disappointed.
He said, “To defeat the BJP, the Muslim society has reposed faith in the tried-and-tested party BSP, but this time the vote of the Muslim community has gone to the SP. Taking a lesson from this stand of the Muslim society, BSP will definitely bring a change in its strategy keeping this bitter experience in mind.
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Significantly, the BSP has been out of power in Uttar Pradesh for a decade and this time the party has won just one seat in the 2022 assembly elections. In a conversation with the media persons, Mayawati said, “According to the response received from the entire Uttar Pradesh in the election, the casteist media through its dirty conspiracies, sponsored surveys and continuous negative propaganda, especially the people of Muslim society and anti-BJP Hindu society are misled by this propaganda. It was successful in making that BSP is the ‘B team’ of BJP.”
The BSP chief said that such things were spread that BSP is contesting elections less strongly than the SP, while the truth is opposite as BSP’s fight with BJP is political as well as theoretical and electoral. He said, “With this type of propaganda by the media and aggressive anti-Muslim propaganda of the BJP, the Muslim society unilaterally gave its vote to the SP and the rest of the anti-BJP Hindu votes also did not come to the BSP.”
Mayawati said that if the vote of the Muslim community was mixed with the vote of the Dalit community, then the way in the elections of West Bengal, the miraculous result of defeating the BJP along with the Trinamool Congress (TMC) came, similarly the result was in Uttar Pradesh. Could be repeated. He claimed, “Only the BSP can stop the BJP in Uttar Pradesh. The party suffered a lot due to the propaganda against BSP and a message was sent among the upper caste, backward class society and different castes of BSP supporters that if SP comes to power, there will be a jungle raj again, due to which people’s vote went towards BJP. ”
Mayawati stressed that the party and its activities have to be revived for the betterment of the poor, the helpless, the downtrodden and the oppressed-weaker sections and also return to power in the future. Mayawati said that the present election result is not the worthy result of the hard work of crores of BSP workers day and night, but the followers of Baba Saheb should not lose their courage, but to continue their efforts and struggle at any cost.
He said that before 2017 the condition of BJP in Uttar Pradesh was not very good. Similarly, the Congress party is now passing through almost the same condition as the BJP has gone through before. Therefore, the election results on Thursday are a lesson for the future. Raising the morale of the BSP workers, he said that the bad times are about to end. The BSP supremo said that in such a situation, it is a matter of satisfaction that the vote of Dalit society, especially my society, remained with the BSP as always, on whom I should be proud, it will be less. I appeal to them not to let their morale drop at all. (agency)