UP Election 2022: Mayawati slams Priyanka's CM remark, says condition of Congress miserable

By Team Newsable | First Published Jan 23, 2022, 4:15 PM IST

Taking to Twitter, the BSP supremo stated that the Congress party's situation is so bad that its CM face for the UP elections changed her mind within a few hours.

Mayawati, the Bahujan Samaj Party chief, slammed Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi on Sunday for her statements on the party's chief ministerial candidate in the forthcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. Taking to Twitter, the BSP supremo stated that the Congress party's situation is so bad that its CM face for the UP elections changed her mind within a few hours. She wrote in Hindi that the Congress party's position in the UP Assembly elections is so bad that its CM candidate altered her position within a few hours. Mayawati further said it would be preferable if people did not squander their vote by submitting it to Congress and cast a solitary vote for the BSP.

1. यूपी विधानसभा आमचुनाव में कांग्रेस पार्टी की हालत इतनी ज़्यादा ख़स्ताहाल बनी हुई है कि इनकी सीएम की उम्मीदवार ने कुछ घण्टों के भीतर ही अपना स्टैण्ड बदल डाला है। ऐसे में बेहतर होगा कि लोग कांग्रेस को वोट देकर अपना वोट ख़राब न करें, बल्कि एकतरफा तौर पर बीएसपी को ही वोट दें।

— Mayawati (@Mayawati)

2. यूपी में कांग्रेस जैसी पार्टियाँ लोगों की नज़र में वोट काटने वाली पार्टियाँ हैं। ऐसे में भाजपा को यूपी की सत्ता से बाहर करके यहाँ सर्वसमाज के हित में व इनके जाने-परखे नेतृत्व वाली सरकार की ज़रूरत है, जिसमें बीएसपी का स्थान वास्तव में नम्बर-1 पर है।

— Mayawati (@Mayawati)

Mayawati referred to the Congress as a party that divides opposition votes against the BJP and asked supporters to disregard it and vote for the party. She said people in Uttar Pradesh regard the Congress as a vote-cutting party. If the BJP is to be kept out of power in favour of a government that works for all areas of society, then the BSP is a clear choice, she added.

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Earlier this week, at the launch of the Congress' elections manifesto for the young in Delhi, Gandhi responded to a question about the party's CM face in Uttar Pradesh by saying, "Are you seeing any face from UP in the Congress?"

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Later that day, in an interview, the Congress general secretary stated that she was not the only face of the party. Mayawati will not run this time, but Samajwadi Party head Akhilesh Yadav has opted to run from Karhal, which is part of the Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency, his party's heartland. This would be his first state competition.

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