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BSP will get majority in U.P. polls: Mayawati

Staff Reporter

NEDUMBASSERY: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati on Tuesday said that her party would secure an absolute majority in the next Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections by contesting it alone.

Talking to reporters here at the Cochin International Airport, she said though the Uttar Pradesh elections were scheduled to be held after ten months, the possibility of a premature poll could not be completely ruled out.

``We are ready to face elections anytime,'' she said.

Ms. Mayawati said her party had the confidence of people in Uttar Pradesh irrespective of caste and religion. "If you were to ask people from any strata of the society about who would come to power, they would unanimously name our party."

She said the current Uttar Pradesh Government was a total failure, especially in the law and order front, with a rising crime rate and complete lawlessness.

Outside support

She said that BSP's equation with the UPA Government at the Centre will not in anyway be affected by the poll outcome in Uttar Pradesh. "We are giving outside support to the Central Government to keep communal outfits like the BJP at bay," she clarified.

Asked whether she was optimistic of opening account in the forthcoming Assembly elections in Kerala, where her party contests in 107 seats, Ms. Mayawati said the party was in its infant stage in the State.

"We are trying hard and our primary aim is to take the party ideology to every nook and corner of the State and thereby increasing our vote share."

Favourable conditions

Shesaid favourable conditions for the BSP prevail in some constituencies in Kerala and that the party was hopeful of putting up a good performance there.

The BSP was not just a mere political party but a mass movement for social change. Besides accommodating the upper classes in the party hierarchy, it gave them tickets in elections and provided them with ministerial berths all three times when the party came to power in Uttar Pradesh.

"We are not against any caste or religion, for which people from the upper castes are also becoming increasingly receptive to our ideology. We aim at breaking the `Manuwadi' forces and bringing forth an egalitarian society.

``If those belonging to upper castes have something to contribute towards this social change, the BSP will keep its doors open to them," she said.

She said that if her party could bring about such change in the most populous State in the country there is no reason why it could not emulate it in other States.

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