Mumbai: On Wednesday it was announced by the Bahujan Samaj Party that Mayawati was re-elected as the President of the BSP unanimously in its National Executive Meeting in Lucknow. During the meeting, the party also finalised 12 names that would participate in the by-poll elections.
As per the sourced the 12 names finalised in the meeting are: Qayyum Ansari as the candidate from Ghosi seat, Rajnarayan Nirala from Manikpur, Naushad Ali from Hameerpur, Akhilesh Ambedkar from Zaidpur, Ramesh Gautam from Balha, Sunil Kumar Chittor from Tundla, Arun Dwivedi from Lucknow Cantt, Devi Prasad Tiwari from Kanpur and Ranjeet Singh Patel as the BSP candidate from Pratapgarh Sadar assembly seat.
The candidate from Jalalpur seat is yet to be finalised. Mayawati announced these names right after she was elected and said that now the candidates could start working on the ground levels from early on and that there won’t be hassled. The party long ago had refrained from contesting polls and this year it would first time in years they are contesting.
According to Mayawati BSP will support the central government as Babasaheb Ambedkar had always opposed the creation of article 370 and that the article was already against their ideology. “Article 370 has been abrogated nearly 69 years after the Constitution came into force, it will certainly take a little time before the conditions in Kashmir become normal. Therefore, it would be better if we wait for a little for this,” she said
She also attacked Congress leaders by saying that Jawaharlal Nehru was the main reason for this Article and incident and that Congress leaders are still committing mistakes. She further said that the Congress was not only expressing its negativity towards the Article 370 abrogation but it had also shown a negative attitude towards the poor, Dalits, Adivasis and other backward classes.
“They are against religious minorities like Muslims, Sikhs, Christians and Buddhists as well because of which their social and economic conditions have remained poor even so many decades after independence,” she said.
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