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Why BSP Supporters May Have Voted For BJP? Mayawati Explains

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati, a day after her partyโ€™s rout in assembly election, blamed the โ€œcasteist mediaโ€ for driving away Muslims from her party, and said the fear of a โ€œjungle rajโ€ if Samajwadi Party came to power made its other supporters shift to the BJP.

The BSP supremo, after her party fell to its lowest ever tally of winning only one seat in the current Uttar Pradesh Assembly election, said it was the mediaโ€™s โ€œaggressive propagandaโ€ showing the BSP as the โ€œB team of the BJPโ€ that drove away Muslims and anti-BJP voters from her party.

โ€œThis decision by the Muslims harmed the BSP because the partyโ€™s supporters among the upper castes, backwards and other communities were made to fear that the โ€˜jungle rajโ€™ will return to UP again if the Samajwadi Party is elected to power. That is why these communities went to the BJP,โ€ she said. 

โ€œLies like the BSP contesting elections not as strongly as the Samajwadi Party were also spread. This was widely publicized, while the truth is contrary because the BSPโ€™s fight with the BJP is political as well as ideological,โ€ she further added, stressing that this also took away the anti-BJP Hindu votes, too, from her party.

Muslim community has made a โ€œmistakeโ€ by trusting the Samajwadi Party instead of the โ€œtime-testedโ€ BSP, Mayawati said.

โ€œHad there been a triangular contest in Uttar Pradesh then the results would have been as per the expectations of BSP. Then BJP could have been stopped from coming to power. In all, the Muslim community was with BSP but its vote went to SP,โ€ she added. 

Mayawati urged the leaders and workers of her party not to get bogged down with the results, but to learn from the defeat and take the party forward. 

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