I prefer Italian putri to Aryan putra — Kanshi Ram

The BSP chief, who was in Pune after completing the first phase of campaigning in the south, categorically predicted that the BJP would not fetch more than 150 seats.

Both Yadav and Pawar will fetch nil votes if they strike an alliance with the BJP prior to the elections, Kanshi Ram said, adding that even if they tie-up with the BJP after the polls, the parties will only muster up 230 seats. The south has always been a stronghold of the Congress party and the NCP will get nothing from south or north. It is only from the land of Phule and Ambedkar that NCP will gain, Kanshi Ram said predicting that Sharad Pawar was likely to fetch 10-15 from 48 seats in Maharashtra.

Elaborating his views on the odd timing of elections, Kanshi Ram said that whichever government was elected would be able to last barely for a year. “We will have to go to the polls by November next year,” Kanshi Ram predicted. It is written in the logic of the situation, the BSP leader said citing the example of Uttar Pradesh which saw four elections in five years.

He also came down heavily on the prevailing system of governance and alleged that there has been no democracy since 50 years. It is a game where the rich man’s notes manipulates the poor man’s votes, he grimaced. The BSP will fetch more than 50 seats, Kanshi Ram said. When asked about his views on the foreign’ factor represented by Sonia Gandhi in the elections, Kanshi Ram quipped that he would prefer an Italian putri’ to an Arya putra’.

"For shudras and ati-shudras, the Aryan civilisation has caused more damage than the western civilisation. We have improved because of the British rule – Ambedkar and Phule could deliver because of the British rule," the BSP chief said.

Kanshi Ram went on to have a dig at the press. The Shudras and Ati-Shudras have three prominent enemies and according to Kanshi Ram and they include money, mafia and media.The BSP chief insisted that every party had emerged and was improving because of media power. For the BSP, however it has emerged inspite’ of the media.

“The fact that we have emerged despite the media has hit at the latter’s credibility,” Kanshi Ram said citing the instance when the BJP could not form the government in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Delhi last year. This only affected the media’s credibility which had predicted the party’s dominance in these states, Kanshi Ram quipped.

“This time also the media has predicted that BJP will emerge as the largest party in UP. But that will not happen and I will not allow BJP to fetch more than 150 seats,” the leader stressed adding that the BSP itself was slated to win 50 seats.