Lucknow: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo, Mayawati on Monday announced that her party BSP and the Samajwadi Party (SP) will no longer contest any elections together. She also said that her party will contest all the elections independently in the future.
The BSP chief, known to have made and broken many an alliance in her political journey, said her party had adhered to the 'gathbandhan' dharma in the interest of the country but was now forced to do a rethink.
Hours after Mayawati announced her plans to go solo in future elections in a series of tweets, a senior SP leader made a caustic reference to "malkin" (woman owner) of the alliance and accused her of weakening the fight for social justice.
The RLD, a minor partner in the grand alliance, said it had nothing to do with Monday's developments and its alliance was with the SP not the BSP.
Mayawati's announcement came a day after she held a meeting with party workers to review the BSP's performance in the recent Lok Sabha polls.
"Everyone is aware that forgetting everything of the past as also the anti-BSP and anti-Dalit decisions like reservation in promotions and bad law and order during the SP rule in 2012-17, the BSP adhered to the 'gathbandhan dharma' with the Samajwadi Party in the interest of the country," she tweeted in Hindi.
"But the SP's attitude after the elections has forced the BSP to think, will it be possible to defeat the BJP in the future? This is not possible," she said.
"Therefore, in the interest of the party and the movement, the party will contest all small and big elections on its own strength," Mayawati added.
She did not elaborate on what she meant by the SP's attitude.
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