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UP polls: BSP not to form alliance with any party, says Mayawati

BJP and SP want the polls to be a 'Hindu-Muslim affair, says the former CM

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The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will not enter into an alliance with any political party for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls due in 2022, party supremo Mayawati said on Tuesday.

"BSP won't have any chunavi samjhauta (poll agreement) with any party. We will contest on our own. We are entering into an agreement with people of all sections of society to bring them together and this alliance is permanent,” Mayawati said while expressing confidence that her party will get an absolute majority the way it did in the 2007 elections.

The former chief minister launched an attack on the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), alleging that both these outfits were trying to give a communal colour to the polls. 

"The BJP government in order to hide its failure and divert the attention from it has colluded with the SP. They are making efforts to raise communal issues like the Ayodhya police firing (on karsevaks) and Jinnah so that the Assembly elections become a Hindu-Muslim affair," she said and claimed that the public has now become aware of the "conspiracies" of these two parties.

"The BSP hopes that people of the state will not fall prey to any of these conspiracies,” she said.

The BSP chief also slammed the Congress, saying if the national party had fulfilled at least 50 per cent of their poll promises, they would not have been out of power at the Centre and in Uttar Pradesh.

Elections to the 403-member Assembly will be held early next year. In the 2017 polls, the BJP pulled off a landslide victory by bagging 312 seats and 39.67 per cent vote share.

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