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Samajwadi Party is dead: Mayawati

Rampur/Budayun: Rubbishing Samajwadi Party Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav’s reported claim that she was trying to settle political scores with him, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today said Mr. Yadav and his coterie would have been in jail had it been so.

“Had I been a dictator as Mr. Yadav alleges, he and his entire brigade would have been lodged in jails,” Mayawati said addressing election rallies in Rampur and Budayun. “The SP is dead now and I do not want to strike at such rejected, dumped and lifeless politicians,” she said.

Ms. Mayawati said the BSP believed in the betterment of all sections of the society irrespective of their caste and creed. Sarva jan hitay and sarva jan sukhaya (interest of all people) is the policy of the BSP, she said.

The BSP chief defended her now scrapped agriculture policy saying it was in the interest of the farmers but was withdrawn keeping in view their protest. --PTI

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