BSP to expand support base with 2022 UP Assembly polls in mind

After the BSP failed to retain an Assembly seat in the recent bypolls in Uttar Pradesh, its supremo Mayawati on Wednesday held a meeting with party leaders here to review the loss and stressed the need for expanding the support base with 2022 state polls in mind.

She also reinstated Amroha MP Danish Ali as the leader of the BSP parliamentary party, days ahead of the commencement of the winter session of Parliament.

The meeting of party office-bearers, including MPs and MLAs, was held against the backdrop of the Bahujan Samaj Party losing the Jalalpur seat in Ambedkarnagar district to the Samajwadi Party.

This was the first seat the SP wrested from the BSP after the two parties broke the alliance stitched up before the Lok Sabha polls.

Accusing the BJP and the SP of working together to dent the morale of BSP, Mayawati said, "There has been a tacit understanding between the BJP and the Samajwadi Party to weaken the confidence of the BSP ahead of the UP Assembly elections. Both these parties secretly shook hands and did not allow the BSP to win a single seat in the bypolls."
In the same refrain, she said, "Irrespective of the steps taken to misguide the Muslims, I am not going to remove Munquad Ali from the post of state BSP chief. I am also making Danish Ali the leader of the BSP parliamentary party."