Cornered Mayawati hits back, says open to anti-BJP front on faulty EVMs

BSP supremo spells out succession plan, names brother Anand as deputy

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati says she might join hands with like-minded parties in opposing the Bharatiya Janata party's alleged tampering of electronic voting machines (EVMs) to win the 2017 assembly polls.

The BSP chief was the first to question the massive mandate for the BJP, which won 312 of the 403 assembly seats in UP, alleging EVM tampering. After having refused to join a 2015 Bihar-like alliance in UP, where the Samajwadi Party and Congress came together to fight the BJP, she could win only 19 seats in the state she ruled as chief minister in 2007-12.

Congress and SP sources