BSP is nobody’s ‘B’ team: Mayawati rejects speculation of post-poll 'tie-up' with BJP
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The speculation of post-poll tie-up was triggered by a recent remark by Union Home Minister Amit Shah that Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party remained ‘relevant’ in the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls and will get Dalit votes.
Basti: Mayawati on Thursday sought to quash speculation over the possibility of a post-poll tie-up with the ruling BJP, saying her BSP was not the B team of any party and the rivals were trying to mislead her supporters.
The speculation was triggered by a recent remark by Union Home Minister that Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party remained ‘relevant’ in the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls and will get Dalit votes.
Mayawati had responded by saying that it was Shah's ‘magnanimity’ that he acknowledged this but added that the BSP will also get the votes of other communities.
"Ever since the Union Home Minister gave a statement on the BSP's position among Dalits and Muslims after the polling in western UP, rival political parties and the media have started saying that it is the 'B' team of the BJP, when there is no truth in this," the BSP supremo said at an election meeting here.
She also accused the Congress, the Samajwadi Party and the BJP as having a "casteist mindset", a charge she also levelled on the media.
