Lucknow,
\nAccusing the BJP of seeking to drive a wedge into the new-found bonhomie between her party and the Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Monday said the two parties\u2019 \u201cfriendship\u201d has been forged in national interest and not to meet any selfish end.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe BSP\u2019s close ties with the Samajwadi Party are not for any selfish motive but in the national interest,\u201d she said, emphasising that the Opposition parties will have to work jointly to stop the BJP from coming to power at the Centre.<\/p>\n
She said the non-BJP parties should come together to address the problems suffered by the common people, including the poor and the youth, because of the \u201cwrong policies of the BJP-led central and state governments.\u201d Mayawati said the BSP-SP friendship is also being welcomed all over the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe BSP and the SP workers will not fall prey to the BJP\u2019s designs in the interest of the nation and the people as we, along with all opposition parties, will have to definitely stop them from coming to power at the Centre this time.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince the BJP is now finding this (tie-up) taking shape, their leaders are issuing unfounded statements against the BSP-SP relationship,\u201d she said, days after the \u201cunderstanding\u201d between the two arch rivals came in for sharp criticism from the saffron party, which lost key Lok Sabha bypolls in Gorakhpur and Phulpur to the SP.<\/p>\n
The BSP supremo also referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s remarks on Dalit icon and chairman of the Constitution-drafting committee, Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar in his \u2018Mann ki Baat\u2019 programme on Sunday and termed it an \u201ceyewash.\u201d \u201cIn the past four years of their governance, they have been continuously indulging in theatrics on issues related to Dalits and backwards and any more drama on the issue will not get them any political mileage,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe country based on the principle of equality of Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar can never be a reality under the government led by the BJP and the RSS as their mindset is narrow, communal and casteist which is against the very spirit of the Constitution,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lucknow, Accusing the BJP of seeking to drive a wedge into the new-found bonhomie between her party and the Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Monday said the two parties\u2019 \u201cfriendship\u201d has been forged in national interest and not to meet any selfish end. \u201cThe BSP\u2019s close ties with the Samajwadi Party are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26036,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26034\/revisions\/26036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}