Journalism of Courage
This is an archive article published on March 15, 2019
Lok Sabha polls: Mayawati to announce BSP candidates after consulting SP
A statement released by the BSP office after the meeting said the announcement of names and implementation of decisions taken at the meeting would take place after a discussion with the SP’s top leadership.
Samajwadi Party National President Akhilesh Yadav with Bahujan Samaj Party Supreemo Mayawati. (File)
Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati on Thursday finalised the party candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and gave final shape to the party plans at a meeting with its senior state and divisional level office-bearers.
A statement released from the BSP office after the meeting said the announcement of names and implementation of decisions taken at the meeting would take place after a discussion with the top leadership of its alliance partner, Samajwadi Party (SP).
At the meeting, Mayawati directed her party leaders and workers to respect the Model Code of Conduct (MCC). The birth anniversaries of Baba Sahab Bhim Rao Ambedkar and BSP founder Kanshiram should be celebrated with simplicity at home, she told workers.
It was claimed during the meeting that the appeals by BSP and SP leadership had a positive impact on the people. Supporters and workers of all the three parties of the alliance, including the RLD, have now put their differences aside to work together to defeat the “arrogant” and “casteist” BJP, the statement said.
“Ruling BJP is not just a casteist, communal, anti-poor, anti-labourer and anti-farmer party but also believe in using several gimmicks of saam-daam-dand-bhed to win the elections. The whole country is feeling this and the people are fed up… The SP-BSP alliance in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh is coming forward as a better and reliable option and good results are a full possibility,” said the statement.
“Situation of the BJP in the whole country, mainly in Uttar Pradesh, is really bad and its leadership is scared that they are going to lose power. This is clear by their nervousness. Their government was anti-poor, anti-labourer and anti-farmer… They are against Dalits, backward classes and religious minorities and that is why people are sad,” it added.
In addition to all this, demonetisation and GST took away all the remaining of the ‘Achhe Din’, which is no less that oppression and injustice, the statement said.
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