Mayawati open to alliance with secular parties... conditions apply
November 16, 2017 20:33
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati said on Thursday that while her party 'favoured' joining hands with secular parties in Lok Sabha and state polls, it will do so only if it gets a respectable number of seats to contest.
The BSP supremo made the comments at the meeting of party coordinators ahead of municipal body elections in Uttar Pradesh.
All office bearers of the party were present in this meeting. BSP is going to contest municipal body elections in state on its own symbol after a gap of almost 17 years.
Mayawati also slammed other political parties for defaming her party on the charges of dynasty politics. The hunt for an able leader to take forward the BSP movement is still on and that is why for the time being my brother Anand Kumar is taking care of the responsibilities. My nephew Akash is also helping his father along with his studies and no responsibility of the party is given to him as of now, she said.
"Our party is in favour of fighting the assembly and Lok Sabha elections in alliance with any secular party, but only when it gets a respectable number of seats in seat sharing or else it would go alone," Mayawati said.
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