Ambedkar Nagar: After completing campaigning for more than half of the Assembly constituencies for the on-going elections in Uttar Pradesh, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati suddenly turned emotional today, asking the supporters to forgive her for wrongdoings during her earlier regimes.
"If I had done anything wrong during my earlier regime, I want to apologise for it and hope that you all will forgive me and support the party to make me Chief Minister for the fifth time,'' she asserted, while maintaining an emotional bond with the people of the area. She has already claimed publicly that in her next regime, she will add no more statues and parks, but will only concentrate on law and order front, along with development of the state. Ms Mayawati appealed to voters to observe fast on the polling day and break the fast only after exercising their franchise.
"Once BSP forms the government, it will generate employment and streamline the recruitment process," she said. She claimed that the current quality of mid-day meal served in primary schools was quite bad and would be replaced with more nutritious items such as milk, biscuits, cakes and fruits. She also promised loan waivers of Rs one lakh for farmers and financial help to the youth, instead of smart phone or laptops, as promised by the SP-Congress alliance.
The BSP chief also hit back on Amit Shah for his 'KASAB' acronym for Congress, SP and BSP, describing the BJP national president as a "terrorist," saying that there "cannot be a bigger Kasab" than him. "Aaj apney desh mein Amit Shah se bada koi aur Kasab nahin ho sakta hai, arthaat aatanki nahi ho sakta hai (There cannot be a bigger Kasab, meaning a terrorist, than Amit Shah in our country now)," she said.
The former UP Chief Minister said such talks reflected the bad mindset of the BJP leader.
Mr Shah had yesterday clubbed the BSP, along with the Congress and the Samajwadi Party, to come up with the acronym 'KASAB' to refer to the Pakistani terrorist, who was arrested during the 26/11 Mumbai attack. The BJP chief had said the name of the 26/11 terrorist, when deconstructed, meant Congress, Samajwadi Party and Mayawati's BSP (Bahujan Samaj Party).
"Until Uttar Pradesh gets rid of KA-SA-B, there will be no development in the state. 'Ka' (in Hindi) is for Congress,'Sa' for Samajwadi Party and 'Ba' for BSP," Mr Shah had said in Chauri Chaura.
Kasab, the lone terrorist caught after the 2008 Mumbai terror attack by Pakistani attackers, was hanged in 2012. "Until Kasab is laid to rest, development and prosperity will continue to elude UP," Mr Shah had said. Later in the day, addressing another election rally in Bahraich, the BSP supremo claimed that her election rally was much larger than that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and exuded confidence that BSP is going to form the next government in the state.
"Because of wrong policies of BJP (at Centre) and SP (at state level), there is resentment among the people of the state," she said.
She alleged that SP changed the names of the schemes, started by the BSP government.The BSP chief also took a dig at SP patron Mulayam Singh Yadav, saying he "seems to have been affected by 'putra-moh' (blind love for son), and has even insulted brother Shivpal." Ms Mayawati urged the Muslim voters to vote for the party, saying that her party has given tickets to 99 candidates from the community.
"RSS and BJP want to end the reservation system in the country. If BJP forms the government in the state, it would either end the quota system or make it ineffective," she said, alleging that BJP did not do anything when it was in power and now, it was indulging in politics of cremation ground and graveyard. (UNI)
