Uttar Pradesh elections 2017: Would prefer opposition over ties with BJP, says Mayawati

Dismissing any chance of alliance with BJP or SP-Congress post polls, she said, We are ready to sit in opposition but will not form government with BJP

By: News Desk |
February 14, 2017 6:06 pm

Bahujan Samaj Party supremo on February 14 alleged that Bharatiya Janata party is spreading rumours that it will form government with her party after Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.

Addressing a rally in Kanpur, she said, ” BJP is spreading rumours through social media that BJP and BSP are going to form government together.”

Dismissing any chance of alliance with either BJP or SP-Congress post polls, she said, We are ready to sit in opposition but will not form government with the help of BJP. Also there is no question to go with SP, Congress also.”

BJP is spreading rumours through social media that BJP & BSP are going to form government together: BSP chief Mayawati at a rally in Kanpur pic.twitter.com/iY78teY1nv

— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) February 14, 2017

We are ready to sit in opposition but will not form government with the help of BJP. No question to go with SP, Congress: BSP chief Mayawati pic.twitter.com/pF5avUA2yp

— ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) February 14, 2017

Earlier in her rally at Sitapur, the former chief minister has attacked the SP-Congress allaince and also expressed confidence her party will storm back to power.

The BSP supremo also accused the Modi government of “interfering” with the personal law of Muslims and ending reservations for backward communities in jobs and promised to extend quota benefits to the poor among the upper castes.

Her refrain was that if Muslims wanted to defeat the BJP, they should not waste their votes by backing the SP-Congress alliance.

Meanwhile, UP chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav took a swipe at prime minister Narendra Modi and said that when will you stop doing your Mann ki Baat and start Kaam ki baat.”

He said even the common man is fed up of your ” Mann ki Baat”.