Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati said on Thursday that she favoured joining hands with secular parties to check ‘communal parties’ in Lok Sabha and state polls but only if her party is given a respectable share of seats.
In a statement issued here, Ms Mayawati said that even for the Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh assembly polls, BSP general secretary Satish Chandra Misra held talks with senior Congress leader Ahmed Patel but the outcome was not encouraging.
She said that Mr Misra held detailed talks with Mr Ahmed Patel and was dejected over the results so he has now stopped advocating the idea of an alliance.
“Mr Misra is also unhappy with the stance of the Samajwadi Party in this matter...The past experience with the SP has also not been good,” she added. She said that contesting in alliance had not benefitted her party in the past, therefore it was better that the BSP contests the assembly and Lok Sabha polls on its own.
