The Samajwadi Party (SP) on April 1 said the Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) and AIMIM alliance for the Lok Sabha election in Uttar Pradesh has been orchestrated by the BJP to divide secular and pro-democratic votes in the state.
The SP said the PDA (pichda, Dalit and alpsankhyak, or the backwards, Dalits and minorities) are solidly behind the INDIA bloc and are aware that such alliances are attempts to make the BJP victorious.
“They (Apna Dal and AIMIM) were reading the BJP’s script. The alliance has been formed to help the BJP by dividing PDA votes. But secular and pro-democratic people are aware and will not fall into the trap. The voters have made up their minds to unseat the BJP from power and such tactics will yield no result,” SP chief spokesperson Rajendra Chowdhary told The Hindu.
