Lagatar24 Desk
Lucknow, Nov 9: Ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh polls, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Tuesday said that her party will not have a tie-up with any political parties for next year’s Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, and will get an absolute majority just like they did in the 2007 assembly elections.
“BSP won’t have any “chunavi samjhauta” (poll agreement) with any party. We will contest on our own. We are entering into an agreement with people of all sections of society to bring them together – this alliance is permanent,” said Mayawati.
Mayawati also alleged that the Samajwadi party (SP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are two sides of the same coin.
Speaking in Lucknow, Mayawati said, “They are two sides of the same coin. They just want to make the polls a Hindu-Muslim matter. We are confident that we will get an absolute majority, just like we got in 2007”.
Notably, elections for 403 assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh are due early next year. In the 2017 assembly elections, the BJP won 312 assembly seats and secured a 39.67 % of vote share in the elections for 403-member Assembly. Samajwadi Party bagged 47 seats, BSP won 19 while Congress could manage to win only 7 seats.
