BSP has no need for accounts

BHOPAL, Jan 14: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Kanshi Ram does not think it necessary to account for the partyâ€™s expendi...

BHOPAL, Jan 14: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Kanshi Ram does not think it necessary to account for the partyâ€™s expenditure. "I have no need to give any accounts to anyone. The money comes for me and I will spend it the way I like," he said, when asked whether the BSP maintained accounts and if its leaders were aware of the party’s expenses. Kanshi Ram was here on a whistle-stop tour of the state on Monday.

He claimed he was spending well below what the Election Commission had prescribed, adding that while the Bharatiya Janata Party was spending Rs 2,000 crore and the Congress Rs 400 crore in the coming elections, the BSP would spend only Rs 10 crore.

The BSP leader is touring all the 40 constituencies in the state by helicopter, while party leader and former chief minister Mayawati is doing the same in Uttar Pradesh.

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Meanwhile, Kanshi Ram has not given up hopes of an election tie-up with the Congress in Madhya Pradesh, adding that Sitaram Kesri and Jitendra Prasad were in touch with him. He claimed that while Arjun Singh and Madhav Rao Scindia were pressing for an alliance, it was Chief Minister Digvijay Singh who was opposing it tooth and nail.

According to him, Singh was against the alliance as he did not like the idea of a tribal chief minster in Madhya Pradesh. "I have decided to make a scheduled caste member the CM of Delhi, a tribal the CM of Madhya Pradesh and a backward the CM of Rajasthan. All three states go to the polls in November, and in December there will be BSP-led governments in all three places," he claimed.

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