Brahmin Pitch, No-'Smaraks' Commitment as Mayawati Blows UP Election Bugle

Mayawati said that this time her party will only focus on development of the state and not on parks and smaraks.

Months ahead of the assembly elections scheduled in Uttar Pradesh (UP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo and former chief minister Mayawati, on Tuesday, 7 September, attended the 'Prabudh Sammelan' in Lucknow with a pitch of uniting the Brahmin community in support for her party.

"The Brahmins have agreed that under the BSP's rule, people from the community were in better condition as compared to under BJP's rule," she said, adding that if her party comes to power in the state next year, she will "ensure their security."

She added that the Brahmins must support the BSP for her party to come to power in the state with complete majority like in 2007.

"The Brahmin community needs to unite with the BSP on war footing so that the party comes to power with a majority, as it did in 2007. We will go to villages and hamlets and unite at least 1,000 brahmin workers in each," she said.