- Saturday, April 20, 2024
By: Shubham Ghosh
BAHUJAN Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Saturday (3) lashed out at opponents Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Indian National Congress over their erstwhile governments in Uttar Pradesh and the current Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government saying they all misused the official machinery and failed to establish rule of law in the state.
Mayawati, who also has been the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh a number of times and last held the post between 2007 and 2012, launched a scathing attack on her rivals in a series of tweets written in Hindi.
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“As it is known that in UP, whether it was the government of the Congress party, Samajwadi Party or the current BJP, the police and official machinery was grossly misused and they were not allowed to work impartially. As a result, all these governments have been extremely unsuccessful in giving a rule of law to the public,” the Dalit leader said.
Mayawati also claimed that under the rule of her party, the government machinery in the UP functioned in an impartial manner and even one of the BSP’s own members of parliament was jailed for flouting law.
“The BJP should allow the newly-appointed DGP and other government machinery to function in an impartial manner,” she said in another tweet referring to Mukul Goel, who was appointed as the new director general of police of Uttar Pradesh on June 30.
Maywati urges Punjab voters to get rid of Congress government
Mayawati, 65, also spoke about the electricity crisis in Punjab in another tweet and said the ruling Congress there is riddled with infighting and factionalism and that did not help the common man.
“Owing to serious electricity crisis in Punjab, normal life, industries and farming is seriously affected. The Congress is reeling under factionalism and infighting and neglecting issues of public interest and welfare. The people should take cognizance of this,” she said, urging the people of Punjab to throw out the Congress and vote for the alliance between the BSP and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) during the upcoming assembly elections.
The BSP will contest in 20 of the 117 seats in Punjab assembly elections next year while the SAD will contest in the rest.
Mayawati, who has faced dissent in her party of late, faces a litmus test next year when UP goes to polls since her party did poorly there in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and 2017 assembly polls.
