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UP elections: Akhilesh Yadav is scared, ran away to safe seat Karhal, says BSP chief Mayawati

LUCKNOW: BSP chief Mayawati targeted Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav in his parliamentary constituency Azamgarh on Monday saying he won the Lok Sabha seat in 2019 only because he had contested in alliance with her party.

She added that this year, when there was no alliance with BSP, he was forced to run away to the safe seat of Karhal in his father’s parliamentary constituency of Mainpuri.

“Now, when there is alliance between SP and BSP and Akhilesh knows his new alliance partners will not be of any help, he has been forced to run away from here and has selected a safe seat under his father’s parliamentary constituency of Mainpuri. He is so unsure of his electoral fortunes that he is also dragging along his aged and ill father for help. You can assess how strong this party’s candidates are when their chief has run away from here,” the four-time chief minister said, adding that voting for SP would end up benefiting BJP, a party which BSP is trying best to stop from coming back to power.

Slamming rival parties for alleging that BSP is the B team of BJP, Mayawati said both SP and Congress were conspiring against BSP by misleading its supporters.

“The fact is that SP is BJP’s B team since party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav openly gave his blessings to BJP in the Parliament and had formed government in 1977 with BJP’s help. In 2003, after I resigned, SP took support from BJP to form government. Now, SP is telling people to vote for BJP where BSP is strong and SP has no chance as they don’t want BSP to win at any cost,” she alleged.

Similarly, she added, Congress also has nothing to say and is trying to mislead Dalits by saying that the BSP chief never visited Dalits when they were in trouble.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi also does not visit Dalit homes personally and the party’s UP in-charge has been visiting them, she said. Mayawati added that she is also the party president like Sonia Gandhi and deputes local leaders to meet those in need and provide immediate help.

“BJP has only created tension in the name of religion. Dalits, OBCs are not getting reservation, she added.

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