BSP supremo Mayawati on Wednesday said people from Dalit, OBC and Muslim communities should beware of the Samajwadi Party for it does the politics of caste and “nonsensical” issues instead of development and public interest.
Her statement came two days after Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav claimed that the ‘Bahujan Samaj’ is uniting with his party in a big way to safeguard its rights, democracy and the Constitution drafted by B R Ambedkar.
Mentioning the SP-BSP alliance formed by party founder Kanshi Ram, Mayawati alleged that even after becoming the chief minister, SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav’s intentions were not pure. Founded in 1984, BSP claims to represent the ‘Bahujans’, referring to Scheduled Castes (SC), Scheduled Tribes (ST), and Other Backward Classes (OBC), along with religious minorities. “In the presence of the SP chief, the news of a case against a SP leader involved in the Ramcharitmanas controversy over the slogan ‘Mile Mulayam-Kanshi Ram, Hawa Ho Gaye Jai Shri Ram’ is in headlines today,” she said in a tweet in Hindi.
“In fact, it has been the nature of SP to do politics of hate on caste lines and nonsensical (anargal) issues instead of development and public interest of Uttar Pradesh,” she added.
During an event in Raebareli on Monday, SP leader Swami Prasad Maurya raised the 90s slogan countering the Ram temple movement, leading to an FIR against him. Party president Yadav was also present at the programme, where he unveiled the statue of Kanshi Ram.
