AMN / LUCKNOW
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Chief Mayawati has said that her party will go alone in the coming Lok Sabha elections. Talking to reporters at the party office in Lucknow on her birthday today, she said, BSP will not forge any tie-up for the Lok Sabha elections, due in April-May this year.
Ms Mayawati said, BSP will consider aligning with any party after assessing the post-poll situation. She categorically denied reports in a section of the media about her retirement from politics. The BSP had contested the last Lok Sabha elections in 2019 in alliance with the Samajwadi Party.
“Our experience with alliances has never been beneficial for us and we suffer more losses from alliances. For this reason, most of the parties in the country want to form an alliance with BSP. An alliance can be considered after the elections. If possible, BSP can extend its support after the elections…our party will fight the elections all alone,” Mayawati said.
Mayawati’s statement of non alliance with any party comes, even as BSP’s suspended MP Danish Ali joined Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Imphal, Manipur.
Lok Sabha MP Danish Ali was recently suspended by the BSP.
On Sunday Danish Ali joined Congress leader Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, saying he would be failing in his duty as a politician if he did not participate in the “biggest drive for unity and justice”.
Danish Ali has been actively joining opposition ranks in attacking the BJP and its policies even though the Mayawati-led BSP has maintained a distance from the BJP-led NDA as well as the opposition bloc INDIA. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) suspended him in December for “anti-party” activities.