Taking a swipe on the proposed Opposition unity assembly to be held in Patna on Friday, Bahujan Samaj Social gathering (BSP) chief Mayawati on Thursday dubbed it “more of joining hands than hearts”. The BSP has not been invited to the Patna assembly organised by Bihar CM Nitish Kumar on Friday (June 23). Earlier than the assembly, these events ought to have instilled confidence among the many individuals by clarifying their intention, she mentioned.
“The problems that the opposition events are elevating collectively earlier than the Lok Sabha elections and in such a scenario the Patna assembly of the opposition leaders organised by Nitish Kumar on June 23 offers more which means to the saying ‘Dil Mile Na Mile, Haath Milate Rahiye’,” Mayawati mentioned quoting poet Nida Fazli in a sequence of tweets.
“With 80 Lok Sabha seats, U.P. is claimed to be the important thing to electoral success but it surely doesn’t appear from the angle of the opposition events that they’re severe and actually involved about their goal right here. With out the suitable priorities, will the preparations for the Lok Sabha elections right here actually carry concerning the essential change?,” she tweeted.
Addressing occasion leaders and workplace bearers in a gathering held on Wednesday, Mayawati hinted at joining the opposition alliance by launching a scathing assault on the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP). Mayawati insisted that earlier than the alliance the opposition events ought to clear their aims and set their priorities to carry a few political change.
Protecting in thoughts the preparations for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, it could have been higher had these events tried to instil common confidence among the many individuals earlier than attempting for alliance. How lengthy will ‘Muh me Ram bagal me chhuri’ (talking in reward on face and stabbing within the again) final?, she mentioned.
“In a rustic affected by inflation, poverty, unemployment, backwardness, illiteracy, ethnic hatred, spiritual frenzy/violence and many others, it’s clear from the pitiable situation of Bahujans that the Congress and the BJP wouldn’t have the power to implement the humanistic egalitarian structure of param pujya Baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar,” she mentioned.
Reacting to Mayawati’s assertion, Janata Dal (United) chief KC Tyagi mentioned, “The JD (U) has not invited BSP to the opposition events’ assembly. The assault on opposition events by the BSP chief won’t make any influence on the alliance.”
Furthermore, Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya mentioned, “Mayawati is indulging in Muslim appeasement by focusing on the BJP. India has turn out to be centre of growth politics underneath the management of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The BJP will battle and win the 2024 Lok Sabha election on the problem of welfare of the poor, good governance and corruption free growth of the nation and Uttar Pradesh.”
UP Congress president Brijlal Khabri mentioned, “If the BSP takes initiative of alliance, the Congress might think about it proposal. The opposition unity within the upcoming Lok Sabha election will verify BJP from grabbing energy.”