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'Forget past differences, ensure victory of all SP-BSP candidates': Mayawati asks for 'ideal' birthday gift

Mayawati said victory of all joint candidates of the SP and the BSP will be an ideal birthday gift.

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SP president Akhilesh Yadav wished Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on her birthday
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Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Tuesday appealed to workers of her party and the Samajwadi Party to forget their past differences.

On Saturday, the BSP and the SP announced an alliance in Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections to unitedly fight the BJP.

"Forget past differences and ensure victory of all joint candidates of the SP and the BSP. This will be my ideal birthday gift," Mayawati said at a press conference in Lucknow on the occasion of her 63rd birthday.

Incidentally, Akhilesh's wife Dimple is also celebrating her birthday today. 

The SP and the BSP have decided on a 50-50 seat-sharing deal under which each party will contest 38 seats. Both parties will leave two seats for the smaller parties.

Uttar Pradesh has 80 Lok Sabha seats.

The parties, however, will not contest in Amethi and Rae Bareli, represented by Congress president Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi respectively.

The 'gathbandhan' has kept the Congress out of the alliance. 

The streets of state capital have been coloured blu with big hoardings and party flags all over the city, especially near the streets and around the party headquarters and her house.

The BSP president is scheduled to leave for Delhi in the later half of the day to spend time with her family, they said. 

Ever since her visit to Lucknow last week, the BSP chief has been busy holding meetings with party workers and leaders to take stock of ground realities and the party's preparation for the coming elections.

"Behenji (as Mayawati is called) has directed party workers to strengthen their presence across all booths and ensure that people from all castes and social strata are connected with the party. She also took a feedback on the work done in her absence," a party leader said on Monday. 

She has asked the party cadres to be wary of the designs of the ruling BJP to harm the interests of the SP-BSP alliance, the leader said.

Though no formal invitation to other party leaders has been extended, party sources said BSP's coalition partners from other states may arrive in the national capital to wish Mayawati.

(With PTI inputs) 

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