Mayawati: Modi, Shah ‘dreaming of harming’ state

Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah, BSP supremo Mayawati termed them as “guru-chela” who, she claimed, are “dreaming of harming” Uttar Pradesh.

“Guru and chela have together harmed the country... ‘guru’ means Modi and ‘chela’ means Shah... now, they together are dreaming of harming the state,” she alleged at an election rally in Deoria on Saturday. BJP leaders have been referring to Mayawati and chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, as ‘bua-bhatija’ (aunt and nephew) during campaigning.

Referring to Shah’s ‘KASAB’ acronym for the Congress, SP and BSP, Mayawati reiterated, “There is no other Kasab (meaning terrorist) bigger than the BJP president... Gujarat is an example before you to see and ensure that this Kasab does not come (to power) here”.

She said, “Muslims need to vote en masse for the BSP, whose Dalit vote is intact and is ready to defeat the BJP... if Muslims vote for the BSP, the BJP will get a setback and it will not be able to come to power in the state.”

She also cited cases of Rohith Vemula , Hyderabad University Dalit research scholar who committed suicide and atrocities on Dalits reported from Una in Gujarat, to caution against voting for the BJP and added that if voted to power, the saffron party will “end reservation by following the RSS agenda” or will make it ineffective. She cautioned Muslims against voting for the SP, saying it would “directly benefit the BJP”. On BJP’s promise that the party would bring prosperity on coming to power in the state, Mayawati said, “After playing petty politics of graveyard-cremation ground, Kasab, slaughter houses and donkeys of Gujarat they are now promising ‘doodh aur ghee ki nadi’.”