Lok Sabha polls 2024: Mayawati announces to go alone; 'will think about alliance after elections'

15 Jan 2024 Evaluate

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Chief Mayawati today reiterated that her party will not enter any alliance for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, but she did not rule out a post-poll alliance.

Addressing a press conference in Lucknow on her birthday, Mayawati said ‘Our past experience with alliances has never been beneficial for us and we suffer more losses from alliances. For this reason, most of the parties in the country want to form an alliance with BSP. Any form alliance can be considered after the elections. If required, the BSP will extend support after the elections. Our party will fight the elections alone’. She also accused the BJP of not doing enough to uplift people out of poverty and instead give freebies in order to cultivate its vote bank. BSP Chief further said parties like the BJP, the Congress, and their allies have casteist, communal, and corporate thought processes and values. Such parties, while being in power, have never wanted to BSP to be independent.

Meanwhile, Mayawati denied speculations about her retirement from politics after she declares her nephew, Akash Anand, as her successor. When asked about her party’s stand on the Ram Temple inauguration event, she said that she has received an invitation for the January 22 consecration ceremony at the Ram temple in Ayodhya and is grateful for it, but a decision on attending it has not been taken yet because of certain party programmes.


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