Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and national president of the Bahujan Samaj Party Mayawati on Sunday appealed to the electorate of Tamil Nadu to shun national parties such as the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party as well as regional parties, contending that they had done nothing for the poor during the past six decades and more.
Though both the Central and State governments had been in the hands of one of these parties for so long, the poor continued to suffer and there had hardly been any socio-economic development, she lamented.
Ms.Mayawati, who introduced the party candidates at an election rally at the Island Grounds here, said the BSP was not a casteist party but was one working for the welfare of every section of society, irrespective of caste or creed.
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And it was according attention to the poor even in the higher castes. Her party, which was ruling Uttar Pradesh, the biggest State in the country, had been returned to power there four times, as its rule was based on the sound principles enunciated by Babasaheb Ambedkar.
“All the communities should unite and only then there could be social transformation,” she added. Hence, her government had seen to it that no community was subjected to any suffering. “Our basic principle is sarva jan hitay, sarva jan sukhay” (benefits for all and happiness for all).
She lambasted the United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre for its “wrong policies” leading to intolerable price rise that had hurt the downtrodden and the middle class very badly.
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She was also unhappy that there was an attempt to sabotage reservation by enacting new laws.
She advised the voters of Tamil Nadu not to get lured by false media propaganda and not fall prey to any allurement. “If BSP were to be elected to power all your problems would be solved,” she promised.