Mayawati accuses PM Modi of threatening voters by bringing in outsiders

Lucknow | BSP Chief Mayawati hits out at Prime Minister Modi again, one day before the final polls take place, and accused him of threatening the voters.

“In a bid to ensure that Prime Minister Narendra Modi wins from Varanasi, outsiders are being used to lure and threaten voters. In this case, how can free and impartial polls be held”, wrote Mayawati on microblogging site Twitter in Hindi.

पीएम श्री नरेन्द्र मोदी को वाराणसी में हर हाल में जितवाने की कोशिश में वहाँ के हर गली-कूचे व घर-घर में जो बाहरी लोगों के माध्यम से पहले लालच और फिर धमकी आदि दी जा रही है उससे वहाँ मतदान स्वतंत्र व निष्पक्ष कैसे हो पाएगा? चुनाव आयोग की, बंगाल की तरह, वाराणसी पर नजर क्यों नहीं है?

— Mayawati (@Mayawati) May 17, 2019

Mayawati also slammed the Election Commission and asked why aren’t they keeping a watch as they did in Bengal, in an apparent reference to EC’s order in the state prohibiting all election campaigning one day before the deadline.

The BSP chief and PM Modi have been in a vocal fight since a few weeks.

Earlier this week, Mayawati had hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and had said that all the BJP Neta’s women will be afraid that their husbands will abandon them like Modi left his wife.

Mayawati’s comments come in the wake of PM Modi’s allegation that Mayawati was crying “crocodile tears” when she demanded justice in the Alwar gang rape case.