Mayawati on 1993 SP-BSP alliance: Mulayam lacked honest intent

LUCKNOW: Launching a fresh attack on Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party national president Mayawati blamed SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav for the falling apart of the alliance of the two parties in 1993 as he 'lacked honest intent'. She also warned Dalits, Muslims and backwards to be wary of SP.
"In 1993, Kanshi Ram had formed SP-BSP alliance driven by a missionary thought and feeling but Mulayam Singh Yadav lacked the honest intent, despite being made the CM of the alliance, and continued to malign the image of BSP and oppress Dalits," she said in a tweet on Wednesday.
The BSP chief has sharpened her attack on SP and its chief Akhilesh Yadav after he unveiled a statue of BSP founder Kanshi Ram in Rae Bareli recently. On Wednesday, she unleashed a series of tweets to target her arch-rival mentioning the FIR filed against SP MLC Swami Prasad Maurya for his revocation of an old slogan 'Mile Mulayam Kanshi Ram, Hawa mein Ud Gaye Jai Shri Ram" (the alliance of Mulayam and Kanshi Ram made Jai Shriram vanish).
Distancing from the slogan, which Maurya raised again at the Rae Bareli event on Monday in presence of Akhilesh, BSP chief said, “The slogans mentioning Ayodhya, Shri Ram Mandir and upper caste society popularised back then was actually a well-thought conspiracy of Samajwadi Party against the BSP.”
"It is the nature of Samajwadi Party to do politics driven by caste-based hatred and irrelevant issues instead of public welfare and development of the state," she said, adding "This reality (about Samajwadi Party) keeps coming in front of the people from time to time."
When SP president Akhilesh Yadav unveiled the statue of Kanshi Ram at a Rae Bareli event of his party, Maurya had raised the "said '' slogan coined in the 90s after SP and BSP forged an alliance. The alliance came to power after 1993 polls and lasted for less than two years when BSP pulled out the tie-up citing SP's anti-Dalit stance.