ayawati on Friday blamed the “casteist media” for driving away Muslims from her Bahujan Samaj Party and said the fear of a ‘jungle raj’ if the Samajwadi Party came to power made its other supporters shift to the BJP.
Plummeting to its lowest ever tally of winning only one seat in the current Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, Mayawati said it was the media’s aggressive propaganda showing the BSP as the “B team of the BJP” that drove away Muslims and anti-BJP voters from it.
“This decision by the Muslims harmed the BSP because the party’s supporters among the upper castes, backwards and other communities were made to fear that the ‘jungle raj’ will return to UP again if SP is elected to power. That is why these communities went to the BJP,” Mayawati said.
“Lies like the BSP contesting elections not as strongly as the SP were also spread. This was widely publicized, while the truth is contrary, because the BSP’s fight with the BJP is political as well as ideological,” she added, adding this also took away the anti-BJP Hindu votes, too, from her party.
