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Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh): Ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh elections, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Tuesday said that the BSP will not forge an alliance with any political party and will get an absolute majority like in the 2007 assembly polls.
“BSP will not have any “Chunavi Samjhauta” (Election Agreement) with any party. We will fight the elections on our own. We are making a pact to bring people from all sections of society together – this alliance is permanent. There is no intention to forge an alliance with any party,” Mayawati said. Further, the BSP supremo alleged that the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BSP) are two sides of the same coin.
We don’t see any difference between SP and BJP. They are two sides of the same coin. They just want to make the election a Hindu-Muslim affair.”
“We are confident that we will get an absolute majority, as we got in 2007,” the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said.
Mayawati also hit out at the Congress party and said that “people of the state are not going to easily believe many election promises made by Congress party like SP. Had the Congress fulfilled even 50 per cent of its election promises, they would not have been out of power at the Centre, Uttar Pradesh and most of the states.
Elections for 403 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh are due early next year.
In the 2017 assembly elections, BJP had won 312 assembly seats. The party secured 39.67 per cent vote share in the elections to the 403-member assembly.
Samajwadi Party (SP) won 47 seats, BSP 19 seats, while Congress could win only seven seats.
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