BSP supremo Mayawati on Thursday termed the Samajwadi Party as two-faced and accused it of including Dalit heroes in its quest for power. Addressing a rally on the 19th death anniversary of Bahujan Samaj Party founder Kanshi Ram, Mayawati said the SP forgets Dalits while in power and remembers them only when needed.
While in power, they neither remember PDA nor the saints, gurus and great men associated with it. But as soon as they lose power, they suddenly start remembering our saints, gurus and great men. People need to be very careful of such two-faced people. The rally drew a huge crowd in the state capital Lucknow, where Mayawati was once the chief minister. In his speech, he accused SP of allowing Dalit monuments and parks to fall into disrepair due to neglect.
Mayawati said that she did not spend even a single rupee on her maintenance. He also kept the earnings from tickets with himself. But now that he is out of power, he is making headlines by saying that he will organize a seminar in Kanshi Ram ji’s honour. Attacking SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, he said that if he had really respected the BSP founder, he would not have changed the name of Kanshiram Nagar district of Aligarh division to Kasganj. We named universities and institutions after Kanshi Ram ji and other great men and started many welfare schemes, but the SP government closed them all. If this is not a double character then what is it?
Mayawati expressed gratitude towards the Yogi Adityanath government that it had promised maintenance of parks and other monuments built under her government. I wrote a letter to the Chief Minister requesting that the ticket amount taken from the audience be used for maintenance. The BJP government assured us that this amount would not go anywhere else, but would be used only for maintenance – and that is what they did. For this our party is grateful to him. The BSP chief expressed his gratitude to the huge crowd that gathered to listen to him. He said that all of you have gathered to pay tribute to Kanshiram ji. The party is wholeheartedly grateful to you.