BSP national president Mayawati says that leaders asking expelled BSP leaders to join them should look at the state of their parties first
But when it all failed, he announced his retirement next morning, with a lot of ifs and buts,” she said, adding that party members would be informed of further details “at the right time.” “That entire night he tried all tricks to get it resolved.
Lucknow: A day after BSP chief Mayawati relieved her nephew Akash Anand of party responsibilities, she hit back at leaders from other parties who suggested he should join them, saying they should “first look at themselves,” and singled out Congress as unfit for the future of Bahujan politics. Comparing Congress to a “sinking ship”, Mayawati said, “Who would want to plunge their future into darkness? Such parties “cannot even contest elections without alliances, nor can they stay away from any party that forms a govt, according to her. The BSP chief said leaders expelled for indiscipline and related reasons have mostly moved to other parties, which, she argued, validated the party’s decision. She described them as “utterly selfish and opportunistic,” and said they could not serve any party’s interests. She also alleged that some expelled leaders had created smaller outfits by “playing into the hands of others,” which she said did not serve the interests of the Bahujan samaj. Mayawati criticised Samajwadi Party and Congress for using the “blue colour of the BSP,” saying symbolic gestures like wearing a blue gamchha do not change what she called their “casteist, narrow-minded, feudal, and capitalist mindset” toward Dalits, tribals, backward classes, the poor, and other neglected groups.
Especially when Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar himself had warned the people of the Bahujan Samaj during his lifetime to stay away from this party. She also accused rival parties of lacking the strength to fight elections on their own and of being unable to remain outside power arrangements.