From Our Bureau
NEW DELHI: Bahujan Samaj Party leader Mayawati (67) on Wednesday declared that her party will contest alone in both the state legislative assembly elections and the Lok Sabha elections in 2024.
She declared that her party would neither join the 39-member NDA alliance or the 26-member INDIA alliance a day after the Congress and BJP announced their alliances and gave reasons for maintaining an equal distance from them.
She told a press conference that she will keep an equal distance from both alliances and run independently in the coming Lok Sabha elections, teaming up with some small regional parties in some states. She claimed the BSP os all prepared for the polls.
“We will fight the elections alone. We will contest the election on our own in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, and in Haryana, Punjab, and other states we can contest elections with the regional parties of the states,” the BSP supremo said.
Taking dig at Congress, she said, “Congress party is forging an alliance with like-minded casteist and capitalist parties to come into power”, and added that the BJP is also strengthening NDA but ”their policies are anti-Muslim and anti-Dalit”.
