BSP to contest assembly polls in Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry on its own: Mayawati

Bahujan Samaj Party would contest the assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry on its own, party chief Mayawati announced on Monday.

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) would contest the assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry on its own, party chief Mayawati announced on Monday adding it had a "bitter experience" of allying with other parties in the past.The BSP supremo, at an event to pay tributes to BSP founder Kanshi Ram on his 87th birth anniversary, also told reporters in Lucknow that her party would go alone in the Uttar Pradesh assembly election next in 2022."The BSP will contest on all the 403 assembly seats in UP and will perform well. The performance of the party will be good in the panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh," she said, as reported by news agency PTI.Mayawati claimed that the BSP would perform well in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. However, she did not clear the party's stand regarding the assembly polls in Assam.Votes of other party not transferred to us: Mayawati on alliance The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said the BSP's experience of forging an alliance with others had not been good.According to Mayawati, the BSP leaders, workers and voters are highly disciplined, but this is not the case with other parties of the country. "In an alliance, our votes are transferred to the other party, but the votes of the other party are not transferred to us. This has been a very bad and bitter experience. In future also, we will not forge any alliance with any party," Mayawati said.Asked about Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra making frequent tours to Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati said, "There is democracy in the country and every party has the right to forge an alliance as per their own view.""Whether the Congress forges an alliance in UP or goes alone is a matter of that party," she added. Also Read | Bengal 2021: On the brink of a religio-political twist?