Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati announced here on Sunday that her party would not go for any electoral alliance and shall contest on its own strength the next round of Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Orissa.
Ms Mayawati was addressing a mammoth one-day convention of BSP workers from these four states at BHEL’s jumboori Maidan here on Sunday afternoon. Welcoming her, the party workers The party workers shouted slogans giving a loud message that they were determined to see her as Prime Minister. Looking at the “commitment and mood” of the party cadres, the BSP leader said there is every reason to believe that her party would show good results in the coming Assembly elections in MP, Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Rajasthan and also in the parliamentary elections that shall soon follow. Drawing attention to the recent petrol price hike, the Uttar Pradesh chief minister said this would lead to all-round increase in prices. The BSP in UP had resorted to a day-long protest against the petrol price hike on May 31 this year, she said and instructed her party workers attending the Bhopal convention to stage protest demonstrations on this burning issue in their respective states. She also told them to build state-level party organisation on top priority keeping in view the coming Assembly elections.
Ms Mayawati said that the Congress party is in a bad shape in MP and Chhattisgarh and went on to observe that it will not be difficult for the BSP to emerge as an alternative to the BJP and form its own government in these two states if the party cadres continue to work hard. A similar scenario is emerging in Rajasthan and Orissa, she said adding if they take a cue from UP, nothing can stop them from coming to power.