Sensing defeat, the SP and the BSP have launched a new game plan for a fractured mandate in Uttar Pradesh so that they can have bargaining power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday.
“The SP and the BSP, after the third phase of polling, have realised that they have no chance of winning and so they have launched a new game, a new technique...even if we are defeated or our seats decrease, no one should get majority,” he said at an election rally in this eastern UP town.
“Leaders of the SP and the BSP can try whatever means they can to defeat the BJP...but do not play with the future of UP. It has suffered a lot in the past,” Modi said in his over hour-long speech.
“You (SP, BSP) might be thinking that in case of a hung House, you will get a chance to bargain but the people of UP have shown you in the Lok Sabha polls, by ensuring a full majority to BJP...and in these elections, they will ensure that BJP wins with a huge margin,” Modi said.
“The ship of the Samajwadis has sunk...BSP is not able to do anyhing... bhatija (nephew, Akhilesh) is thinking of how to save himself, while bua (aunt, Mayawati) is worried of what the bhatija has done...,” he said.
Speaking about the “backwardness” of eastern UP, Modi said that with fertile land, enough water and industrious people, it could have been the pride of the country.
“It is not as if leaders sitting in Delhi are not aware of the situation here but they don’t have any concern...there cannot be a bigger crime...the Congress has committed a big crime as also the SP and the BSP and they all needed to be punished,” Modi said.
