Amid blame game in UP, Mayawati alleges BJP workers demoralised BSP

The Dalit czarina asserted her party would disrupt the saffron party's designs

Still smarting from the rout in the Uttar Pradesh by-elections, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) President Mayawati (pictured) is taking recourse to lame excuses to shift the blame for the defeat. While the Samajwadi Party (SP) won three of the 11 seats that went to the polls last week, the BSP drew a blank and lost the lone constituency it held to the former. Coming on the heels of the snapping of the SP-BSP alliance after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Mayawati has accused the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of helping the SP. Alleging the BJP had conspired to demoralise