BJP, RSS misled BSP supporters on making me President: Mayawati

She was speaking to BSP leaders and workers during a meeting to review the party’s debacle in the Assembly elections.

The party managed to win only one seat in the 403-member Assembly with its voteshare dipping to 12.88 per cent.

She also held the rival Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Muslim community for the BSP’s loss.

“Nobody had expected that the results will be so bad… After a thorough study of the results, only one reason is coming to the fore… when Hindus noticed that Muslims associated with the BSP were supporting the Samajwadi Party, a majority of them (Hindus) voted for the BJP to prevent the SP’s rule of corruption, hooligans, mafias and terror to return. Due to it, the SP could not come to power and BJP once again emerged victorious. And because of it, the BSP suffered a tremendous political loss for which the SP and largely the Muslim community is completely responsible and guilty,” Mayawati said.

Urging the party leaders and workers to win back the support of people who did not vote for the BSP, Mayawati said: “People from the Muslim community, upper castes and other backward classes who got misled, astray and directionless (bhatke, dishaheen, gumrah) in the recent elections, they must be brought back to BSP.”

She asked party leaders to reach out to upper castes and OBCs and bring them in the BSP-fold as they did in 2007.

Targeting Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party, Mayawati said,” The Samajwadi Party was far away from the majority mark power even after contesting the elections in alliance with over a dozen smaller organisations and parties… Now, the SP can never return to power in future and it cannot stop the BJP from coming to power… BSP is the

only party that can stop BJP from coming to power in UP and our base vote of Dalits did not leave us.”

She said that if the BSP had polled at least 50 per cent of Muslim votes, then Hindu voters, especially Brahmins who were upset with the BJP would have supported the BSP. In that situation BJP could have been removed from power, she added.

Regarding non-Jatav Dalits, Mayawati asked her party workers to pull them out from “Hindutva”.

Mayawati, meanwhile, appointed three coordinators to work in the state and give her monthly reports of the party’s activities in all 18 divisions.

The three coordinators are former MP Munqad Ali of Meerut, Rajkumar Gautam of Bulandhshar and former MLA Vijay Pratap of Azamgarh. Mayawati has directed them to tour all the 18 divisions of the state and ensure that her directions were implemented on the ground.

Mayawati said Bhim Rajbhar would continue to be the party’s UP unit president and asked the leaders to not get disappointed from the party’s performance in the recent polls and work again to bring the party back to power. “We have to start for that by getting better results in upcoming local body elections, Lok Sabha bypolls and further in general elections,” Mayawati said.

Sources in the party said that she has dissolved the district-level bhaichara committees, which were formed to reach out to different castes and sections, and the Assembly constituency units across the state. “All the state coordinators will tour the state and on the basis of their reports, committees and district level units will be constituted afresh,” said a party functionary.

Mayawati said to bring her party back to power in UP, she is bracing for a fierce struggle and confrontation with all the ”casteist, capitalist and feudal forces”. “Now, every moment of my life will be spent on strengthening my party at every level in the whole country,” she said.

With PTI