New Delhi/Lucknow: Desperate to shrug off the speculation about a possible post-poll tie-up between her Bahujan Samaj Party and the BJP, BSP supremo Mayawati, who is relying heavily on Muslim votes in the ongoing UP Assembly polls, on Tuesday targeted the saffron party, saying that the people of Uttar Pradesh would not be deceived by the BJP’s tactics. SP president and UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav has, on the other hand, been reiterating his claim that Mayawati “cannot be trusted” and that she could “align with the BJP at any time”.
Ahead of the sixth phase of the UP polls on Saturday, Mr Yadav said: “Mayawati can anytime align with the BJP, she cannot be trusted. People should always be careful of her. Both BJP and BSP don’t want the Samajwadi Party to come to power again, but we trust that the people of Uttar Pradesh would support us.”
“The Samajwadi Party has done the maximum amount of work in the state and we have built the Metro at a very fast pace ... never done earlier by any government,” he said at a rally in Deoria.
Targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “cremation-graveyard remark”, Mr Yadav said his party was more focused on discussing laptops and smartphones. The CM’s comments came even after voting for the fifth phase of Assembly elections continues in Uttar Pradesh.
The chief minister also took a dig at Mr Modi over his “fractured mandate” remark, saying that those who were talking about getting 300 out of 403 seats were now giving indications about a coalition government.
“Earlier the PM and his party leaders were claiming that they will win 300 seats, but till the time the polls reached Mau they are talking about a coalition government.”
