BSP will contest assembly elections in Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Delhi: Mayawati

NEW DELHI: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Wednesday announced that the party will contest the upcoming assembly elections in Jharkhand, Maharashtra, and Delhi, after expressing disappointment with the party's poor performance in the Haryana elections.
The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister had previously blamed the party's lackluster results in Haryana to the "casteist" mentality of the Jat community, blaming this for the failure despite the BSP's alliance with the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) in the polls.
"The BSP and the INLD fought the Haryana assembly general election in alliance. But today's result shows that the casteist people of the Jat community did not vote for the BSP due to which the party candidates lost on some seats by a small margin of votes, although the BSP's entire vote was transferred," said Mayawati in a post on X.
The BJP secured a record third consecutive victory, winning 48 seats, while the Congress won 37, and the INLD managed only two seats in the Haryana assembly elections.
The BSP received a 1.82 per cent vote share, and its ally INLD received 4.14 per cent, according to the Election Commission data.