Mahendra Nath calls Mayawati's Lucknow visit 'political tourism'

UP BJP chief Mahendra Nath Pandey Sunday accused BSP chief Mayawati of visiting Lucknow only in the search of votes.

Speaking to reporters here, Pandey said, "The amount of pain which Mayawati feels for the people of UP can be gauged from the fact she appeared in Lucknow after almost three months. She comes to Lucknow only for the purpose of 'political tourism', and leaves after giving her statement."
He said, "BJP always gives priority to relationships, but Mayawati has always broken the dignity of relationships. BJP workers had come to her rescue when she was attacked and humiliated by SP goons. The SP goons have even tried to kill her."
Referring to demonetisation, the UP BJP chief said, "Mayawati's pain pertaining to demonetisation surfaces regularly, as her notes had transformed into pieces of paper. She is not able to recover from this."
Earlier on Sunday, Mayawati had said, "The efforts of the opposition parties will be to stop the BJP from coming to power at any cost. For this talks of forging an alliance is also going on. Our party is not against the alliance, but our stand is very clear, that is, we will ally with a political party only if we get respectable share of seats. Or else, our party feels it is better to contest elections alone."
On the BSP chief's statement that BJP is not leaving any stone unturned to derive mileage from the demise of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the BJP media co-ordinator said, "Mayawati has honoured so many great and eminent personalities by constructing their statues in Lucknow. I fail to understand why is she having any problem if the BJP is holding various programmes in honour and memory of Atalji."