Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Monday reiterated her stand on supporting candidates from BJP or any other party to defeat Samajwadi Party in the upcoming elections to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council. Accusing the Congress and Samajwadi Party for misquoting her statement, BSP chief said her party would never enter into an alliance with the BJP. Stressing on the opposite ideologies of the two parties, Mayawati said she would choose to retire from politics than ally with BJP. She also confirmed that the alliance between the BJP and BSP is not possible in any polls in future.

Last week, the BSP chief Mayawati had said that her party would support anyone, including the BJP, to ensure the defeat of Samajwadi Party candidates in the upcoming MLC elections in the state. Few days after her statement on Monday, Mayawati had clarified that she made such statement for Samajwadi Party’s anti-Dalit approach in the upcoming MLC election. She alleged that the Congress and SP are manipulating her statement for their own interest to cut the Muslim voters from BSP in seven by-polls seats of Uttar Pradesh.

The development comes days after Mayawati suspended seven BSP MLAs for their involvement in anti party activities. On thursday, six BSP MLAs reportedly met Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav in at his party office in Lucknow to switch sides. Chaudhary Aslam Ali, Hakim Lal Bind, Mohammad Mujtaba Siddiqui, Aslam Raini, Sushma Patel, Hargovind Bhargava and Bandana Singh were suspended for opposing the nomination of the party’s official candidate Ramji Gautam for the elections to the Rajya Sabha.

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The BSP chief said she stand by her earlier statement, which is misused by the SP and the Congress for political gains so that the Muslim community distances itself from the party.

Elections to 10 Uttar Pradesh seats in the Rajya Sabha and 11 seats in the state’s Legislative Council are due over the next few months.

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With the opposition in Bihar already in disarray, the politics among the constituents of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the state is what is expected to generate heat ahead of the elections later this year. With Ram Vilas Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party demanding more seats than earlier and the Janata Dal (United) of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar not too keen to part from its share of seats, the BJP is trying to pacify its two key allies.

BJP president JP Nadda and BJP national general secretary Bhupendra Yadav met Nitish Kumar at his residence in Patna on Saturday. Nadda is on 2-day visit to Patna.

Earlier, LJP patron and union minister Ram Vilas Paswan said he will stand firmly with whatever decision his son and LJP chief Chirag Paswan takes on the future of the party. In a series of tweets, Ram Vilas Paswan said he was confident with his son’s wishes to grow the party in the state.

Chirag Paswan had hit out at the Nitish-led NDA government over its handling of the Covid-19 situation, followed by the crisis posed by the return of lakhs of migrants from all across the country. The readmittance of former Bihar CM Jitan Ram Manjhi into the NDA fold seems to have irked the Paswans since it could impact the number of seats the LJP can contest on within the NDA seat-sharing umbrella.

The BJP has tasked former Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis with managing the party’s campaign in Bihar. In a media interaction, Fadnavis said only a government which can work with the Narendra Modi government at the Centre can take Bihar forward, unlike a government having differences such as the West Bengal government.

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The Opposition, comprising the Rashtriya Janata Dal, the Congress and the Left parties, had accused the ruling alliance of utilising the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput as a poll issue since Rajput was brought up in Bihar.

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