After capturing Uttar Pradesh, BSP is targeting Narendra Modi-run Gujarat amid a declaration that the 'elephant' will go it alone in all Assembly and Lok Sabha polls.The BSP, which has 'elephant' as its election symbol, wants to replicate the UP experiment in Gujarat projecting itself as the 'third alternative' in the Assembly polls which has generally remained a BJP vs Congress affair."We want to spread the experiment from our Uttar Pradesh laboratory to various states and Gujarat is the first election after we captured Lucknow under the leadership of Mayawati," senior party leader Gandhi Azad said.Azad, who is in-charge of the Gujarat campaign, told PTI that the party wants to see Mayawati as the next Prime Minister on its own strength and was against any tie-ups in elections to various Assemblies and the Lok Sabha.The BSP leader, who is a close associate of Mayawati, said that his party would use the same strategy in ticket distribution as in Uttar Pradesh and winnability would be the main criteria.He said that the BSP would contest all the 182 seats and the candidates would be a mix of upper castes, dalits, backwards and minorities.Shrugging suggestions that BSP will have no political space in Gujarat having a bi-polar polity, he said that the BJP and Congress have for long practised the politics of "divide and rule" and the BSP is set to expose it.The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister would be campaigning in Gujarat around the first week of December, he said.
