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UP assembly polls 2022: No alliance with any party except with people of UP: BSP
: National general secretary of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Satish Chandra Mishra has ruled out any pre-poll alliance with a political party, big or small, for the forthcoming Uttar Pradesh (UP) Assembly elections
: National general secretary of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Satish Chandra Mishra has ruled out any pre-poll alliance with a political party, big or small, for the forthcoming Uttar Pradesh (UP) Assembly elections.
He reiterated that his party just had a pact with the people of the state instead of a political party.
Mishra was in Prayagraj on Tuesday to attend the “Prabudh Varg Sammellan” before
moving to Pratapgarh on Wednesday, Mishra said that his party was not going to enter into any agreement with Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and said that everyone knows on whose insistence his party was coming to UP to contest polls.
Conceding that the BSP’s experience of poll alliances had been very poor, Mishra said the party does not want to even remember the pact that it had once entered with Samajwadi Party. He said that the party had contested the 2007 polls alone and succeeded in forming the government, and this time too, the party was determined to do it alone.
He came down hard on the ruling BJP’s government of the state terming it as ‘jungleraj’ and claimed that every section of the society including the Brahmins, labourers, farmers and traders were unhappy under the present regime. Mishra said that the entire Brahmin community was now backing the BSP and it was sure to succeed in the 2022 assembly elections of UP.
Accusing the BJP leadership of only using the name of Lord Ram to gain political benefits and not actually interested in constructing the Ram temple in Ayodhya, Mishra claimed that if the “neglected Brahmin community” comes with BSP they would have the key to power in the state after the 2022.
In response to reports suggesting the AIMIM would be joining hands with the Samajwadi Party (SP) in the upcoming UP Assembly polls in 2022, AIMIM UP Pradesh president Shaukat Ali had recently said that no such statement had been made by his party leadership.
