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Muslim support to SP, weak Cong main reasons for BSP rout:
Mayawati
Wednesday March 07, 2012 07:34:36 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow: After
resigning as the Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Mayawati Wednesday
blamed the rout of her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on the Congress,
the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and mass Muslim voting for the
Samajwadi Party.
Sounding as combative as ever, Mayawati also warned at a news
conference here that the people of Uttar Pradesh will soon regret
voting for what she said was the "SP culture" of thuggery.
"The people of UP will soon get fed up... When that happens, they
will remember our governance."
The BSP suffered stunning reverses in the assembly elections,
winning just 80 seats compared to the 206 in 2007.
Mayawati said the Congress promise during the campaign to reserve
extra jobs for Muslims and the reaction of the Bharatiya Janata
Party against it caused a Hindu-Muslim polarisation that destroyed
the BSP.
An aggressive BJP frightened the Muslims, 70 percent of whom voted
for the Samajwadi Party because they saw the Congress as a weak
party, she said, trying to explain reasons for her party's
debacle.
"Once the Congress promised job quotas for OBC (other backward
classes) Muslims, the BJP bitterly opposed it. Not only this, the
BJP tried to lure both upper castes and OBCs towards it.
"Because of this Muslims feared that the BJP might return to
power... Almost 70 percent of them voted for the Samajwadi Party.
This is the chief reason we suffered very badly."
She added: "In such a situation, Samajwadi Party's Muslim
candidates won easily from Muslim areas."
The Congress-BJP spat over Muslims job quotas helped the Samajwadi
Party, she said. "These two parties are responsible for the SP
victory."
Mayawati did not spare journalists either, for allegedly
overplaying the story of Muslim reservation.
"When people regret voting for SP, they will not only curse the
Congress and BJP, they will curse the media too."
The BSP leader declined to accept that corruption charges against
her regime also turned the voters against the BSP.
"If there was anger against my government, I would not have got 80
seats. I would have become a Lalu Prasad."
Mayawati declared that her Dalit base remained intact. "They
solidly voted for BSP candidates. This is why we finished second,
otherwise we would have sunk very badly."
The Samajwadi Party, dumped by the electorate five years ago, is
set to take power in Uttar Pradesh after winning a staggering 224
of 403 seats in the assembly.
Before meeting the media, Mayawati met Governor B.L. Joshi,
submitted her resignation and asked him to dissolve the assembly.
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