Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati slammed BJP president Amit Shah for his remarks on opposition unity. She said that even when the people of the state have taught the BJP leaders a lesson for using derogatory remarks still the party brass was engaged in calling opposition parties by the names of animal.
``When the BSP and SP joined hands to fight Lok Sabha bypolls in Gorakhpur and Phulpur seats, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his ministers used unsavoury remarks as a result the voters taught them a lesson by defeating both BJP candidates,” pointed out Mayawati.
“In fact, BJP leaders are frightened so now even the Prime Minister and BJP chief were using unparliamentary language. The people have by now understood that chosing the BJP in 2014 was a mistake and they were now decided on throwing the party in the next Parliament elections,” asserted the BSP chief.
The BSP chief was reacting to Shah’s statement on opposition unity in Mumbai where he said that there was a campaign to unit all Opposition parties as during a flood, snakes, mongooses, cats, dogs and even cheetahs and lions climb up trees to escape rising water levels.
Shah’s jibe was seemingly aimed at the anti-BJP front comprising parties like TRS, Trinamool Congress and TDP to counter Prime Minister Narendra Modi led BJP in the Lok Sabha polls next year.
In Uttar Pradesh too, Samajwadi Party and BSP have inked an alliance with the possibility of Congress and Rastriya Lok Dal (RLD) joining the bandwagon.
Meanwhile, Mayawati also targeted Yogi Adityanath alleging that the government was targeting courageous Dalit youths and orchestrating their murders to crush Dalit movement.
``After eliminating criminals on caste and religious lines, now the Yogi government is targeting courageous Dalit youths, either by murdering them or using machinery to crush the movement,” she charged while reacting to the killing of BSP leader in Meerut and arrest of some party leaders for the violence during Bharat Bandh last Monday.
She questioned whether the Yogi government was following the `Gujrat Model’ where killings took place on caste and religious lines to take political mileage out of it. She warned the CM that he could use machinery to his liking but Dalits would not bow to any pressure and were ready to give any sacrifice to safeguard the community’s dignity.