LUCKNOW: In a strongly worded response to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, who said earlier in the day that the BSP chief transferred her party’s vote to the BJP during the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Mayawati said it was not the BSP but the Samajwadi Party that transferred its votes to the BJP to help it win in previous elections.
Hitting back at the Chief Minister's claim that the BSP scored a zero in the last elections, Mayawati said that despite failing to win a seat, her party was in the third position in terms of vote percentage after the BJP and Congress at the national level during the Lok Sabha elections.
“Now Samajwadis should tell the people at what position their party was during last general elections,” she said.
Taking a swipe at the SP over the ongoing feud in the Yadav family, the BSP chief said: “Infighting in Yadav family is far from over. This is coming to the fore as the tickets are being distributed.” She said that if SP’s position was so sound in the ensuing polls, then what has prompted them to seek an alliance with the Congress party while they had gone it alone in the last Assembly elections.
Meanwhile, reacting to the slanging match between SP and BSP, the BJP said that both the parties had been hand-in-glove for years now in the state. They are of similar nature and character, and are hardly bothered about the issues plaguing the common man in the state.