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Mayawati quits, warns against SP's hooliganism
Wednesday March 07, 2012 01:57:26 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow: Uttar
Pradesh was likely to witness a wave of hooliganism as the Samajwadi Party (SP) had been voted back to power in the state,
outgoing Chief Minister Mayawati said Wednesday shortly after
submitting her resignation.
In her first comments after her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) was
routed in the state Tuesday, Mayawati told reporters that the
state would now taste "SP culture" as had become evident in the
last 24 hours.
Citing incidents of violence in Jhansi, Firozabad and Sambhal
where SP workers indulged in violence Tuesday, Maya said that very
soon the state would remember "her good governance" and repent the
verdict that they gave in favour of the SP.
Blaming the Congress and BJP of conniving to oust her from power
and get a SP government, she also accused the Congress-led United
Progressive Alliance (UPA) government of "harbouring a negative
mindset" against her and the state government. She also blamed the
media for "unnecessarily hyping irrelevant issues".
Asked whether scandals like the rural health scam had impacted on
the party, the outgoing chief minister answered in the negative
and said that knives would be out for the Congress, the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) as well as the media when people faced the
hooliganism of the SP brass.
In Mayawati's view, Muslims voted in large numbers for the SP and
Mulayam Singh Yadav and this probably cost her the job. She,
however, underlined that her Dalit vote bank was intact and
numbers would have slipped further had that not been the case.
Mayawati said 70 percent of Muslim votes went to the SP as the
Congress appeared weak.
While the SP got an emphatic verdict of 224 seats in the
403-member assembly, the BSP was reduced to just 80 seats, down
126 from the 206 it got in the 2007 assembly polls.
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