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Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha Election 2024: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati Tuesday vowed to work for carving out a separate state, comprising of districts in western Uttar Pradesh if voted to power at the Centre. The veteran leader also promised to fulfill the “longstanding demand” of setting up a bench of the Allahabad High Court in Meerut.
Addressing a poll rally in support of BSP candidate from the Meerut Lok Sabha seat, Mayawati referred to a resolution passed by her government, calling for carving out a separate state in Western UP.
“Since the beginning, our party has been of the view that the western region should be made a separate state for better development of the region.
“We had got a resolution passed by the state assembly and sent to the central government but they did not act on it. When our party comes to power at the Centre, your western UP will be made a separate state,” she said.
She also said that her party, if voted to power, will work to fulfil the demands and address problems of the region. “We will take positive steps with regards to your longstanding demand of a Allahabad High Court bench here in Meerut like that in Lucknow,” she said.
“The central government has not been paying attention to it but when we come to power at the Centre, we will take positive steps in this regard,” Mayawati said.
The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister alleged that the quota facility meant for the Dalits, adivasis (STs) and OBCs in government jobs has not been filled up in the country for years and the quota in promotions for the SCs/STs has also been made ineffective.
Attacking the Samajwadi Party (SP), Mayawati said, “I want to remind the members of the SCs/STs that when the SP was in power in Uttar Pradesh, it had ended reservation in promotions. Will the members of these sections give even a single vote to them and waste it on a party which is bent upon finishing their reservation. The SP does not want SC/ST people to get full benefits of reservation”.
She also alleged that when an amendment bill for reservation in promotions was presented in the Rajya Sabha, the SP MPs tore it up.
“Will such Samajwadi Party do good for the Dalits and shoshits (exploited class). Not only this, the districts, parks, universities that we (BSP government) had made in the name of great men belonging to these sections of society were mostly changed by the subsequent Samajwadi Party government.”
Mayawati also launched a scathing attack on both Congress and the BJP, warning her supporters that the national parties allegedly use “saam, daam, dand, bhed” (by hook or crook) policies to attain power.
The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister alleged that akin to the Congress, the BJP’s casteist and pro-capitalist thinking and policies have not helped in ensuring the real development and uplift of the poor, Dalits, adivasis, backwards, Muslims and other religious minorities among the “sarv samaj”.
Mayawati warned her voters the the Congress, BJP and their supporting parties must be stopped from coming to power, alleging their wrong policies and manner of governance has not borne any fruit for the common man.
Meerut Lok Sabha Election 2024
Seeking vote for her party nominee from Meerut, Mayawati said unlike the past elections when her party had fielded Muslim candidates, it has this time given ticket to Dervrat Tyagi.
Voting will be held in Meerut in the second phase on April 26, where BJP candidate Arun Govil, Samajwadi Party’s Sunita Verma and BSP’s Devvrat Kumar Tyagi are in the fray.
(With inputs from agencies)
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