Mayawati advises Congress to ally with smaller parties

The Bahujan Samaj Party chief, Mayawati, lambasted her political opponents on Saturday, sparing not even PM Modi, whom she described as high-handed and autocrat. 

Addressing a press conference here, Mayawati said the Modi government may be blowing its own trumpet but the reality is that in its two-and-a-half years in power, it has not been able to fulfil even one-fourth of its promises. She said the BJP was in such a weak position in Uttar Pradesh that it could not even name a chief ministerial candidate.

Taking a dig at the Congress, Mayawati said the party should take a lesson from Bihar and maintain a distance from the SP. It should, instead, forge and alliance with smaller parties, she said. Many Congress workers were not happy with the alliance, she said.

The BSP chief said that the so-called feud in Mulayam Singh Yadav’s family in UP was nothing but a ‘drama’ to hide the failures of CM Akhilesh Yadav. The SP government, she said, had miserably failed on the law and order front. Citing the communal incidents in Muzaffarnagar, Mathura, Bulandshahr, and Dadri, she said the SP had created an environment of terror in the state. All sorts of crimes have increased – be it encroachment, violence against women, murders or, kidnappings, she said.