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‘BSP will concede Telangana if voted to power at Centre’

Special Correspondent

‘Film stars have no inclination to serve people’
Naxalism traced to pro-capitalist policies

HYDERABAD: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati said here that her party would create a separate Telangana if it was voted to power at the Centre.

Addressing a public meeting at the Nizam College grounds on Sunday, Ms. Mayawati said the BSP was committed to Telangana as it was in favour of smaller States.

She appealed to people of the region to elect a good number of MPs on BSP ticket to pave way for the victory of the party and thereby creation of a separate State.

‘No’ to film stars

Referring to speculation about the entry of film star Chiranjeevi and his brother Pavan Kalyan in BSP, she said there was no place for cine stars in the party as they were basically entertainers and had no inclination to serve people. She asked people not to get into the trap of film artistes. She also asked the State leadership of the BSP to see that no film star was admitted into the party.

On naxalism

Ms. Mayawati traced the origin of naxalism in AP and other States to pro-capitalist policies of successive Governments led by the Congress, BJP and some ‘misguided’ regional parties.

The parties implemented programmes of capitalists having been elected with the support of the latter.

In fact, the parties were at the command of capitalists.

As a result, the interests of the poor were neglected which gave rise to naxalism, she said.

On its own strength

She maintained that BSP was the only party which aimed at political power on the strength of its own following so that the capitalists had no say in Government.

The party was committed to serving the poor irrespective of caste and religion.

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