Don't go with SP, Mayawati tells Cong

Mayawati claimed that infighting in Mulayam's clan was a 'drama' enacted by SP patriarch

Accusing Akhilesh Yadav’s government of shielding criminals and communal forces, BSP chief Mayawati today said Congress' attempted tie-up with ruling Samajwadi Party showed its political bankruptcy and will be inimical to the party which is “running on oxygen support” in Uttar Pradesh.

She alleged that Congress was kowtowing to Samajwadi Party by accepting the “tainted” Akhilesh Yadav as the chief ministerial candidate and claimed several Congress leaders have come to BSP after talks for an alliance between the two parties for the upcoming Assembly polls.

“I will like to tell the Congress that if they consider themselves as secular, they should not go along with SP. Keeping their future in mind, they should either go it alone or with smaller secular parties in the Assembly polls,” Mayawati told newspersons here.

Attacking Samajwadi Party, she alleged it has been shielding criminals and communal forces and has a clear understanding with the BJP.

She also claimed that the infighting in Mulayam Singh Yadav’s clan was a mere “drama” enacted by the SP patriarch.