IF BSP IS VOTED TO POWER, WE WILL ENSURE SECURITY OF BRAHMINS, SAYS MAYAWATI
LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati continued with her outreach to Brahmins ahead of the 2022 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, promising to ensure the security of the community if the party was voted to power next year.
“Brahmins have agreed that under BSP’S rule, people from
the Brahmin community were in better condition as compared to the current BJP’S rule. I assure the Brahmin community that if we come to power in the next elections, we will ensure their security,” she said while addressing the closing ceremony of ‘Prabudh Varga Sammelan’.
“I promise that when the BSP forms the government in 2022, it will take care of the dignity, security and welfare of the Brahmin community in a similar manner as was done after the formation of the BSP government in 2007,” she added.
The BSP leader’s assurance came days after she decided to take up the legal battle to secure bail for the 17-year-old widow of slain Brahmin gangster Vikas Dubey’s nephew, who too was shot in an encounter on July 8, last year. Khushi Dubey has been booked for murder and criminal conspiracy, and was lodged at a juvenile centre in Barabanki.
The party is reaching out to the Brahmins as part of its effort to grow its traditional voter base (composed mostly of Dalits) in the state. The BSP had earlier announced it would expedite the construction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya if voted to power.
Giving a call for “Dalit-brahmin” unity, she said both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Samajwadi Party have indulged in empty talks to win the votes, but neither safeguarded their interests when in power.