UP urban local body polls not fair: BSP chief Mayawati

LUCKNOW: A day after the results for Uttar Pradesh urban local body polls were declared, BSP national president Mayawati said that the elections were not fair.
BSP did not win even a single mayoral seat out of the 17 that the state has. The party, in fact, lost the two seats, Aligarh and Meerut, that it had won in 2017 local urban polls in UP. This time, BJP has won all the mayoral seats in the state.
BSP had fielded 11 Muslim candidates in the elections and on the remaining seats, it had placed a bet on old guards. However, the strategy did not work for the party. Mayawati, in a series of tweets on Sunday, hit out at the BJP government for misusing the official machinery and rigging the elections.

"It would have been a completely different picture if the elections were conducted fairly. If it was through a ballot paper, BSP would have also won a mayoral seat," she said, adding that her party will not sit quietly and give a befitting reply to the BJP when time comes.
She said that both the BJP and the SP use similar tactics to win local elections.