Lucknow: On her 62nd birthday, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Supremo Mayawati wanted to know why was BJP afraid of holding elections through paper ballots.
Addressing a press conference in the city, Mayawati said: "If BJP leaders consider themselves honest and believe in their work, why are they afraid of conducting future elections through ballot papers, instead of EVMs?"
The debate over the authenticity of EVMs has been on for nearly an year now. Other political parties, including the Congress and Samajwadi Party, too, previously raised the possibility of tampering with EVMs. The Election Commission, however, has rejected the charge.
Soon after cutting the birthday cake, Mayawati attacked both BJP and Congress, and accused them of being hand-in-glove. She even released the 13th edition of book "Mere Sangharshmay Jeevan Evam BSP Movement Ka Safarnama" (A Travelogue on My Struggle and BSP Movement).
On being asked about the alliance for 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Mayawati said, "I have answered the questions regarding alliance many times earlier too," and left the dais.
In November 2017, during a meet of party workers for civic body polls in Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati had said that to stop communal forces from coming in power, BSP is not against any kind of alliance with secular parties, provided BSP gets respectable number of seats.
Also, it was revealed how BSP General Secretary Satish Chandra Mishra had held meetings with Ahmed Patel and Ghulam Nabi Azad regarding seat sharing during the recently concluded Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections. However nothing substantial came out of it.
Mayawati also attacked Congress and asked the party to explain why Baba Saheb had to resign in 1951? Why Congress did not implement the recommendations of the Mandal Commission?
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