April 28, 2007
BSP Confident of Forming Government
on Its Own
Lucknow
As Uttar Pradesh voted Saturday in the fifth leg of assembly
elections, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati asserted that
she was confident of forming the next government on her own
strength.
"BSP will form the next government in Uttar Pradesh," the party
president and former chief minister told reporters shortly after
casting her vote.
"And let me tell you, we will do it entirely on our own strength and
not require anybody else to form our government," she added.
Mayawati was all praise for the Election Commission for ensuring a
"free environment enabling voters of all classes to vote". She,
however, added: "Some more measures were required to improve things
further."
BSP national general secretary Satish Misra, who accompanied her to
the polling centre, said: "Let me tell you, the results of the poll
May 11 will spring major surprises - doomsday for Mulayam Singh
Yadav and the return of Mayawati with a thumping majority."
Counting of votes in Uttar Pradesh's staggered month-long election
will take place May 11.
Mishra, an eminent lawyer-turned Rajya Sabha member who is largely
responsible for the success of Mayawati's unique "social
engineering" of striking a chord with Dalits as well as Brahmins,
insisted: "The BSP is the only party in the main contest in each of
the state's 403 assembly seats."
"What substantiates my belief is the fact that every other party is
battling with BSP in every constituency." He went on to proudly ask:
"Tell me one place where this is not happening?"
Asked if Mayawati's "social engineering" would be short-lived and if
she would discard Brahmins once she took power, Misra shot back:
"The Dalit-Brahmin combine is a tried and tested formula; the two
have been traditionally close to each other and have never been at
loggerheads.
"All that talk about ditching the Brahmins is a canard spread by
other political parties who felt threatened by the potential might
of this combination.
"After all, the Congress ruled the country on the strength of a
Brahmin-Dalit-Minority axis."
When IANS drew his attention to the perceived alienation of Muslims
from BSP on account of Mayawati's off-the-cuff reference to the
community as "communal" and "fundamentalist", Misra clarified: "Behenji
has never called Muslims communal; it was a distortion by the media
and played up by Mulayam Singh only to misguide and mislead Muslims
into supporting (him). Muslims have understood that."
He went on: "The larger chunk of Muslims had already displayed their
faith in BSP in most of the 234 constituencies that have already
voted in the first four phases of the election."
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