Yogi Adityanath has closed doors for negotiations: BJP

Allahabad, Mar 28 (UNI) Uttar Pradesh BJP president Keshri Nath Tripathi today said Yogi Adityanath, by annoucing to field his own Hindu Mahasabha candidates in 14 districts of eastern UP, had closed the doors for negotiations.

Talking to UNI here, Mr Tripathi said Adityanath was himself responsible for the failure of talks.

''Yogi was pressurising BJP for changing some sitting MLAs and fielding weak candidates at some assembly seats, which was not acceptable to the party leadership.'' Mr Tripathi said BJP had expected Yogi would raise his issues within the party and follow discipline, but he failed to do so.

''Hindu voters are unhappy with the decision of the BJP MP (Yogi) and are going to vote against his candidates...he is hatching a conspiracy to weaken his parent party.'' He claimed both Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav and Ms Mayawati were corrupt and CBI was probing allegations of corruption against both the leaders.

''Both are responsible for spreading the evils of casteism in the society and are following politics of Muslim appeasement.'' Mr Tripathi said Mayawati's allegation that there was a secret understanding between BJP and the ruling Samajwadi Party was totally baseless.

''It was BJP, which has opposed SP both in house-and-outside house. It was BJP, which saved Mayawati's life in 1989, when there was an alliance between SP and BSP.'' UNI