BSP does not belong to any particular caste: Mayawati

Bulandshahr, Apr 2: BSP President and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati reiterated her belief in equity-based society and asserted her party did not belong to any particular caste. Addressing an election meeting here, Ms Mayawati said it was due to her belief in equity-based society, that she had given adequate representation to all the religions and communities in ticket distribution.

BSP has given 93, 113, 61 and 136 tickets to SC, backwards, Muslims and uppercaste Hindus respectively. Of the 136 tickets to uppercastes, Brahmins and Rajputs accout for 86 and 36 respectively.

Paying tributes to BSP founder late Kanshi Ram, Ms Mayawati maintained the party was contesting the poll on its own and would not form an alliance with any other outfit.

Lambasting the ruling Samajwadi Party in UP, she alleged mafias and criminals were ruling the roost in the state, while the people were living in constant terror.

''Murders and kidnapping have become an industry...only BSP can remove a modern 'Kans' like Mulayam Singh Yadav,'' she added.

She appealed to the voters not to get influenced by the opposition and support BSP at the hustings.

Ms Mayawati promised improvement in law and order situation, employment opportunities, schemes for labourers, better prices to farmers and sops to traders, if BSP comes to power.

''Only BSP is the well-wisher of Muslims. Muslim members were made ministers only under the BSP rule and their religious places were protected. No communal riot has ever taken place under my rule,'' she claimed.

Assailing the Mulayam government, the BSP chief said the current state dispensation only had Nithari, Kavita Rani murder case and communal riots at Lucknow and Kanpur to trumpet as achievements.

She further alleged that SP supremo Mr Yadav and party general secretary Amar Singh had amassed ill-gotten wealth by siphoning funds from the state exchequer and were planning to flee the country.

The former CM also claimed a secret pact between BJP and SP, even as she criticised Congress for inflation and the existing Mulayam rule in UP.

UNI