While addressing a rally in Jalaun in Uttar Pradesh, BSP president Mayawati on Friday, 26 April, said that the people are going to bid goodbye to those chanting 'NaMo, NaMo' and choose the ones who follow 'Jai Bhim' in the ongoing 17th Lok Sabha elections.
The former Chief Minister said, “This time you all are going to bid goodbye to the NaMo-NaMo people and choose Jai Bhim followers in the elections.”BSP Chief, Mayawati
She picked on the fact that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is often referred to as 'NaMo' by his supporters. In addition to this, Mayawati said the BJP will be removed from power at the Centre this time and no amount of "Jumlebaazi" or "Natakbaazi" will help them.
In another attack, she claimed that the BJP had made several promises before coming to power but all of those turned out to be hollow.
Targeting the Congress, Mayawati said although the party had been in power for most of the time since Independence, its wrong policies and works ultimately led to its removal.
“Had they taken care of the ‘sarv samaj’, we would not have felt the need to form the BSP,”BSP Chief Mayawati
She especially included the weaker sections, the poor and the unemployed. She alleged that the party neglected Bundelkhand and did nothing for poverty alleviation and employment generation in this region.
“The Congress says it will remove poverty but had they really done anything about it, the party would not have gone out of power,” said the BSP chief.
In Uttar Pradesh, it is a tough fight between BJP and the BSP-SP-RLD alliance.
The State is voting in all the seven phases of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. It has already voted in the first three phases on 11, 18 and 23 April.
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