Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati said here on Thursday that Uttar Pradesh would emerge nucleus in formation of Central government after the Lok Sabha election and assured that the Centre would focus on development of Telangana which was elusive under TRS rule.
Addressing an election meeting of BSP and Jana Sena alliance which are together contesting 12 of 17 Lok Sabha constituencies in Telangana, Ms. Mayawati said the BSP, Samajwadi Party and Rashtriya Lok Dal alliance in Uttar Pradesh was working well. Since the three parties would throw up a good result in election in the country’s largest State, it was natural that the Prime Minister would be installed from that State.
The BJP would be out of power, she said and added that demonetisation which was a hurried step was going to be one of the main reasons for BJP’s downfall. The black money which the BJP promised to unearth had never taken place.
Ms. Mayawati appealed to people not to be misled by promises of the BJP and the Congress which had proposed a guaranteed annual income of ₹72,000 to the poor. She wondered how the Congress would implement the promise in the entire country when it could not do it in States ruled by it.
She regretted that a community whose population was 1.5%-2% sent a Chief Minister for Telangana while SCs, STs and Backward Classes who constituted 70% did not enjoy political power. There was no development in the State even after bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh.
Jana Sena president Pawan Kalyan who got a boisterous applause throughout asked Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao not to support YSR Congress because its president Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy hurt religious sentiments of Hindus and was targeted by supporters of Telangana during a visit to Warangal. Mr. Rao would not be ensuring social justice if he supported Mr. Jaganmohan Reddy.
He asked Mr. Rao not to tinker in politics of Andhra Pradesh but remain neutral. The Jana Sena had entered the fray in Telangana in a bid to give new leadership to the State without the likes of defectors like P. Sabita Indra Reddy, Talasani Srinivas Yadav and Errabelli Dayakar Rao.