BSP Calls Off Its Alliance With SP After Humiliating Defeat In Lok Sabha Election

TPI Staff June 24, 2019

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Mumbai: After a poor performance in Lok Sabha Election BSP has called off its alliance with Samajwadi Party led by Akhilesh Yadav.

“The behaviour of the Samajwadi Party after the Lok Sabha elections forced the BSP to think if it would be possible to defeat the BJP by continuing the alliance further. Our party came to the conclusion that it not possible. So, in the interest of the party and the movement, the BSP will now fight all the major elections on its own,” tweeted BSP supremo Mayawati.

https://twitter.com/Mayawati/status/1143031591448354817

https://twitter.com/Mayawati/status/1143031592853446657

This comes a day after BSP party meeting in Lucknow on Sunday. Mayawati called a tirade against SP patron Mulayam Singh Yadav, in which she accused him of giving money to working with the Bharatiya Janata Party. 17 Crore Taj corridor case at the beginning of the decade of 2000

She had also expressed her disappointment over Akhilesh’s attitude as he ‘neither visited her nor called her after poll drubbing’, “After losing the election, I did not get any call from Akhilesh. BSP general secretary Satish Mishra asked him to talk to me, but he did not agree. But because I am superior to them, I called them and gave sorrow to my family members when they lost. ”

Of the total 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, the BSP had won 10 and the SP bagged only five in the general elections. The BSP had contested 38 seats and SP on 37.

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