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People have rejected negative politics, says Mayawati

Upbeat: Chief Minister Mayawati

LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party president and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati termed her party’s win in the Assembly by-elections a reiteration of the people’s faith in the policy of “sarvjan hitaya, sarvjan sukhaya.”

Targeting the Samajwadi Party, the BSP supremo said in a press release that negative politics had led to the SP losing its traditional strongholds of Bharthana and Etawah.

The Congress victory in Firozabad was a manifestation of people’s anger against dynastic politics pursued by SP president Mulayam Singh, Ms. Mayawati said.

Ms. Mayawati noted that in the 2007 Assembly elections in the State, the BSP had only won the Lalitpur seat, but in the recent by-elections, it added eight new seats to its tally.

The BSP wrested Bharthana, Powayan, Isauli, Hainser Bazar and Etawah from the SP and Padrauna and Jhansi from the Congress.

It also triumphed in Rari, won by the party’s MP from Jaunpur Dhananjay Singh on the Janata Dal (United) ticket in the 2007 Assembly elections.

Ms. Mayawati claimed that the BSP would have won from Lucknow West had the Bharatiya Janata Party not diverted its vote to the Congress.

Stating that the by-elections exposed the Opposition’s conspiracy against her, Ms. Mayawati said the Bahujan Samaj Party cadres had been told about the designs of the Congress, the Samajwadi Party and the BJP before the by-elections.

She said the verdict had cut short the Opposition’s design to upstage her.

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