Having set her sights on next month’s Delhi Assembly elections, Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati has taken on both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Aam Aadmi Party even as she reached out to Dalits and under-privileged sections.
Ms. Mayawati, who on Thursday announced that the BSP would contest all 70 Assembly seats in Delhi, slammed the BJP-led government at the Centre for misleading the people by promising them ache din (better days). “By and large the promises made to the people have not been fulfilled,” she said. Referring to the floating bodies in the Ganga in Unnao, Ms. Mayawati demanded a CBI probe into the issue and attacked the Samajwadi Party government for its failure to uphold the rule of law in Uttar Pradesh.
She cautioned Dalits, OBCs and other deprived sections against the BJP government’s move to cosy up to industrialists. “If the BJP government continues to work on this pattern reservation for Dalits and other deprived sections will decrease,” she said. The BSP chief accused Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal of working against the interests of quota beneficiaries.
