The Bahujan Samaj Party will fight the upcoming Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand elections alone, party chief Mayawati said on Sunday amid reports of an alliance.
The BSP, former UP cabinet minister Om Prakash Rajbhar-led Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) and Hyderabad-based All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) will come together under the umbrella of the Partnership Sankalp Morcha to contest the 2022 UP elections. Mayawati’s clarification has come amid reports of Assembly elections.
There was talk in political circles that Mayawati and AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi have held several rounds of talks and the latter is coming to Lucknow next month to formalize the alliance.
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Mayawati denied media reports of the alliance on Twitter, saying that the BSP would go it alone in the elections.
1. This news is being broadcast in a media news channel since yesterday that the AIMIM and BSP will fight the upcoming assembly general elections in UP together. This news is completely false, misleading and factless. There is not even an iota of truth in this and BSP vehemently denies it. 1/2— Mayawati (@Mayawati) June 27, 2021
The BSP is facing a crisis a few months ahead of the elections after the party expelled two senior party leaders, state legislature party leader Lalji Verma and former state party president Ramchal Rajbhar, for anti-party activities.
Verma and Rajbhar, senior OBC leaders of the party and ministers in the erstwhile Mayawati government, are MLAs from Ambedkar Nagar district in eastern UP.
This comes after the party’s dismal performance in the recently concluded panchayat elections in the state. The BSP performed poorly in the panchayat elections, finishing third behind the BJP and the SP.
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There were also reports of a trusted aide of Mayawati. Satish Chandra Mishra Emerging as a thorn in the flesh of 11 party MLAs sacked by Mayawati in the last two years, most of whom have accused Mishra of creating differences and misleading her.
Just eight months before the election, this is Time of crisis for Dalit politics In Uttar Pradesh, which was a crucible for the upliftment and empowerment of Scheduled Castes, the BSP, its late founder Kanshi Ram and his disciple Mayawati, became the first Dalit Chief Minister of the state with an absolute majority in the legislature. Mayawati is rarely seen or heard except on Twitter and the BSP’s once indomitable outfit is virtually “dormant”, insiders acknowledged.
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