Oppn attacks will only help her in assembly polls: Mayawati

Lucknow, Dec 6: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati Tuesday hit out at the opposition parties for targeting her government and the party and said such attacks would only work in her advantage in the assembly elections due next year.

"The functioning of our party and the government is based on the movement of Baba Sahib (BR Ambedkar)...The opposition is not happy and is trying to push back the movement, especially when the assembly elections are near," she said addressing a rally on the death anniversary of Ambedkar.

The BSP supremo said the comments being made by opposition parties on ministers of her government, MLAs and party functionaries only prove that there was "nothing concrete" against her party or her government.

"Whenever the BSP or its government has been attacked, we have shown better results...Such attacks only help wake up those cadres who are sleeping. It is only to our advantage," she said.

Mayawati also asked party workers not to get "distracted" by the various "hurdles" being created by the opposition parties to thwart BSP from its objective of forming a government at the Centre.

PTI