Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati today claimed that Congress had offered some allurements to her to make the BSP to forge an electoral understanding during the 2004 Lok Sabha polls but they were spurned.
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati today claimed that Congress had offered some allurements to her to make the BSP to forge an electoral understanding during the 2004 Lok Sabha polls but they were spurned.
The BSP preferred to go to the people's court alone that time, the party supremo said.
Mayawati made these remarks at a closed-door meeting of party MPs, MLAs and office bearers, a senior party leader, who was present at the meeting, said.
The leader claimed that Mayawati told the meeting about the Congress offer to withdraw Taj Corridor and disproportionate assets cases on coming to power in 2004 in return for a national level understanding with BSP for the elections.
A BSP spokesman however claimed that Mayawati did not make any mention of any offer from the Congress for dropping the two cases.
The spokesperson said that what she said was that Congress had approached BSP for an electoral understanding before the 2004 Lok Sabha elections to keep BJP out of power saying that if voted to power it would ensure that no injustice was done against the BSP chief.
But based on the experience of 1996 alliance with the Congress which had not been in the interest of the BSP, the offer was turned down and the party decided to go alone in the Lok Sabha elections, the spokesman quoted Mayawati as having said at the meeting. The spokesman said he was present at the meeting.
At the meeting, Mayawati termed both the cases as conspiracy hatched by the BJP which, she alleged, tried to pressurise her for having a tie-up leaving 60 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats for BSP in the state, according to the senior party leader.
The chief minister said she had spurned the Congress offer as she always kept BSP movement before her personal interests and would continue to do so till her last breath.
Charging the successive Central governments with misusing official machinery and the CBI against her, Mayawati said she was fighting against it tooth and nail in the Supreme Court.
"In case I fail to get justice from the court and CBI due to Congress pressure, I am confident I will get it in the people's court in the form of votes," she said asking party men to work hard for gaining support to teach BSP's political adversaries a lesson.
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