Basti (UP): BSP supremo Mayawati on Monday said the “frustrated” leaders of the BJP including Prime Minister Narendra Modi were trying to create fissures in the SP-BSP alliance in Uttar Pradesh. Mayawati was reacting to Modi’s speech at an election rally in Pratapgarh on Saturday alleging that the Samajwadi Party was “going soft” on the Congress, as opposed to the Bahujan Samaj Party which was attacking the grand old party. He had also claimed that the SP had benefitted due to the alliance and Mayawati had now understood that the Akhilesh Yadav-led party and the Congress were playing a “big game” with her.
“The BJP is frustrated and is trying to create fissures in the alliance,” she said, claiming that the joint candidates of the alliance were way ahead of the saffron party nominees in the four phases of polling that has concluded so far. Voting was held in 14 Lok Sabha constituencies of Uttar Pradesh on Monday under phase five of the ongoing general elections. The state will also vote in the remaining two phases on May 12 and 19. Urging the voters not to get confused and back the alliance candidates, the BSP supremo accused the prime minister of trying to create a rift in the alliance. On Sunday, Mayawati had said that the alliance “will continue in the future as well”, while SP chief Akhilesh Yadav too spoke in the same refrain saying Modi was “misleading” people.
