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Business News/ Politics / Policy/  Mayawati’s BSP to fight assembly elections in Haryana, Maharashtra
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Mayawati’s BSP to fight assembly elections in Haryana, Maharashtra

BSP will go alone in Maharashtra despite an alliance offer by NCP and has projected a former Congress MP as its chief ministerial candidate in Haryana

Mayawati on Sunday accused BJP and SP of being ‘hand in glove’ in fanning communal violence in Uttar Pradesh to further their political interests. Photo: PTIPremium
Mayawati on Sunday accused BJP and SP of being ‘hand in glove’ in fanning communal violence in Uttar Pradesh to further their political interests. Photo: PTI

New Delhi: After failing to open an account in the Lok Sabha elections, Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is testing waters in Haryana and Maharashtra where assembly elections are due later this year.

It has decided to go alone in Maharashtra despite an alliance offer by Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and has projected a former Congress MP as its chief ministerial candidate in Haryana. Mayawati said she has made it clear to Sharad Pawar that her party will go alone in the assembly elections due in four states in the coming months.

“The NCP leader (Pawar) did not talk to me directly. But he had to BSP’s general secretary Satish Misra. I had told Misra that there is no harm in talking. But I asked him to make it clear that BSP will have no alliance with Congress or NCP," Mayawati told a press conference.

She said her party will have no electoral alliance with any party in the four states going for assembly polls. The terms of the state assemblies of Haryana, Maharashtra, Jammu and Kashmir and Jharkhand are coming to an end between October this year and January 2015.

The BSP chief also announced the entry of former Congress MP from Haryana Arvind Sharma into the party fold and said he would be projected as the chief ministerial candidate in the assembly elections. “Most of the chief ministers of Haryana have been from the Jat community. They have often ignored the interests of other communities. At times people from other communities have also been exploited.

“Therefore, BSP has decided to project Sharma, a Brahmin, as its chief ministerial candidate in Haryana. If we come to power, we will follow our policy of Uttar Pradesh and work for the betterment of all communities," she said.

Meanwhile, Mayawati on Sunday accused Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) of being “hand in glove" in fanning communal violence in Uttar Pradesh to further their political interests and said communal forces were becoming strong across the country.

She said while the situation in UP was “bad" under the rule of the Samajwadi Party, things have “worsened" after the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) took power at the Centre.

“We see that communal forces are gaining strength in the country. Several states have witnessed communal riots. Uttar Pradesh holds the number one spot. Samajwadi Party and BJP are hand in glove behind the communal violence in Uttar Pradesh. Peace had ended in the state the day SP came to power. But the moment BJP came to power at the Centre, the situation has worsened there," she told reporters.

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Published: 17 Aug 2014, 06:35 PM IST
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