Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati said here on Friday that the Aam Aadmi Party posed no threat to others in Uttar Pradesh. “The AAP has no base in the State. Besides contesting in the Lok Sabha polls, it has nothing to show,” she said at a press conference here.
She said the BSP was the only hope for forming the next government in the State (in 2017) to get rid of the “jungle raj” of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and restore the rule of law and development. After three years in office, the SP failed to fulfil the people’s aspirations.
The foremost task before the AAP government, she said, was to keep its promises to the people. “Or, it will meet the fate of the BJP,” she said. The Delhi poll outcome was a “verdict on the failure of the BJP government at the Centre and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”
She said that in Delhi, the BSP suffered the consequences of a grossly one-sided contest and paid the price for having backed the Congress-led UPA government.
Accusing the BJP of “arrogance,” the BSP president said a beginning had not been made towards fulfilling the promises and assurances given to the people during the Lok Sabha election.
She described the decisions taken by the Modi government as “anti-poor” and “anti-farmer.” Ms. Mayawati criticised the Prime Minister for not taking “tough measures” against the fringe elements spreading communal hatred.
