A day after the ruling BJP won Uttar Pradesh legislative council bypolls, BSP supremo Mayawati on May 30 lashed out at the Samajwadi Party (SP) for fielding Dalit and OBC candidates in the polls despite knowing that the numbers were stacked against them. She also accused the Akhilesh Yadav-led party of ignoring these sections when it was in power.
The saffron party had sailed comfortably in the legislative council bypolls held on May 29 with both its candidates Manvendra Singh and Padmasen Chowdhary posting comfortable wins over Samajwadi Party's (SP) Ram Jatan Rajbhar and Ramkaran.
"In the by-elections held yesterday for two seats of the U.P. Legislative Council, despite the defeat being certain, the SP fielded Dalit and OBC candidates in the election and got them defeated, while ignoring them when they [SP] were in power... proves that the conspiracies of the SP towards these classes has not changed even a bit," Ms. Mayawati tweeted in Hindi.
