Lucknow:Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) national president and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Monday announced that the party would not give a ticket to Atiq Ahmad's family in the upcoming urban body polls. Addressing a press conference, BSP leader Mayawati said that her party will not give the ticket to Atiq Ahmad's wife Shaista Parveen in Mayoral polls in Uttar Pradesh.
Speaking about the Mayoral ticket in Prayagraj, Mayawati said, "Whatever facts have come to the fore so far through the media regarding the murder of Umesh Pal in Prayagraj, the name of Atiq wife's was involved in the incident. Our party will not give tickets to Atiq's wife or any other member of his family." Meanwhile, The BSP supremo has demanded the government and other officials conduct the urban body polls with a ballot paper and not with EVMs.