Can’t Defeat BJP Together, Says Maya Before Snapping Ties With SP

New Delhi: Mayawati on Monday formally called off her party’s alliance with Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party, reports NDTV. She tweeted that going forward, her party will contest all elections, big and small, on its own.

The BSP also tweeted expressing her grouse against Akhilesh Yadav, with whom she had promised to keep cordial relations just three weeks ago. A string of Assembly seats will be up for by-election later this year.

“It is known that all our old grievances with the SP were kept aside, along with the anti-Dalit and ant-BSP decisions taken by the SP government between 2012-17, works carried out that were against reservation in promotion and deteriorating law and order situation – were all kept aside and an alliance was formed in public interest which was honoured completely,” one of her tweets read.

In another, she said: “But after the Lok Sabha general election, the attitude of the SP compels BSP to think whether it will be possible to defeat the BJP in the future. Hence, for the sake of the party and the movement, the BSP will now fight all elections – big or small – by itself.”

On Sunday, after a meeting with senior party leaders, Mayawati had accused Akhilesh Yadav of not calling her after the results, and working “against non-Yadav backward communities” and even neglecting Muslims while he was the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister.