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The Bahujan Samaj Party on Tuesday ruled out entering into an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party after the assembly election in Uttar Pradesh saying it would form the government on its own.
"We are not going for any post-poll alliance with the BJP. This is a propaganda against our party unleashed by the BJP. I want to tell you that we will get absolute majority in the coming elections," party vice president Mayawati said in Dehra Dun.
When reminded that surveys had predicted a hung assembly in UP, Mayawati said they were politically motivated and never credible. "In 1999, poll surveys had almost sealed the account of BSP in the 13th Lok Sabha election. But when the results came out, the BSP got 14 seats," she said.
She said her party was not against any caste or religion and that was why out of the 403 seats in the assembly, the BSP had given 92 seats to upper caste candidates.
Mayawati denied the allegation that she had given election tickets to criminals, saying that the maximum number of criminals were put behind bars during her tenure as the chief minister.
Earlier, addressing an election meeting at the historic parade ground, Mayawati asserted that her party would not only get an absolute majority in UP, but also perform well in Punjab and Uttaranchal assembly polls.
Launching an attack on the Congress, BJP and the Samajwadi Party, she asked the voters to support the BSP, as the rest of the parties had done nothing for the betterment of the people.
Stating that the BSP was never a party of dalits only, the former UP chief minister said her party had maintained the principals of humanity and that it did not discriminate on the basis of caste and religion.
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