Vote for party not candidate, Mayawati tells Saharanpur Muslims
Submitted by admin4 on 5 May 2009 - 4:54pm.
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By IANS,
Saharanpur (Uttar Pradesh) : Muslims should vote for a party and not a
candidate to ensure that their votes are not divided, Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister Mayawati said here Tuesday while alleging that the Samajwadi Party
(SP) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were working against her BSP.
Appealing to the 39 percent Muslims in this Lok Sabha constituency, about 400
km from the state capital Lucknow, the Bahujan Samaj Party chief said: "You
(Muslims) have to ensure that the BJP and the SP are not able to split your
votes. For this, you should vote for a party and not for candidates on the
basis of their religion."
Saharanpur, which goes to the polls in the last phase on May 13, is seeing a
four cornered contest with the SP fielding a Muslim candidate, Rasheed Masood,
against the BSP's Jagdish Singh, the Congress' Chaudhry Gaje Singh and the
BJP's Jaswant Saini.
Mayawati alleged that the BJP and SP were working together to defeat the BSP.
"For fighting against the BSP, both the parties (SP and BJP) are working
together as part of their pact to mutually benefit each other in this election."
SP's decision to field a Muslim candidate from Saharanpur and its decision to
not field a candidate from Ghaziabad against BJP president Rajnath Singh were
examples of the pact between the two parties.
Accusing the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government of not
taking significant steps for the development of Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati said:
"The UPA government has never been serious about all-round development of UP."
If the BSP was voted to power at the centre, it would take immediate steps to
solve the power crisis in the state and ensure that even rural areas get
uninterrupted power supply throughout the day, the chief minister promised
With Regards
Abi
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