Rajya Sabha poll results not going to affect SP-BSP alliance: Mayawati
Lucknow, Mar 24 (IBNS): Despite the Rajya Sabha poll defeats in Uttar Pradesh, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati has stated the alliance between her party and Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi party (SP) will continue, media reports said.
A day after the SP-BSP alliance was decimated by the BJP, Mayawati told media the partnership between the two main opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh will remain unperturbed by the poll defeats.
On the other hand, Mayawati has alleged the BJP to create an atmosphere of terror.
"Everyone knows BJP's misuse of power. They even established an atmosphere of terror," she said.
She also said it is because of a terrified atmosphere created by the BJP, now suspended BSP lawmaker Anil Singh had cross-voted in favour of the saffron party.
Mayawati said the BJP tried to break the newly formed alliance between the BSP and SP.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won nine out of 10 seats in the Rajya Sabha elections.
BJP chief Amit Shah has beaten Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav in the prestige battle for the Upper House seat.
This has come as a big boon for the ruling BJP.
In another crucial win, Anil Agarwal, who was BJP’s ninth candidate, defeated BSP’s Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar.
Actress Jaya Bachchan won the single seat for SP.
The SP and the BSP, which were once the arch-rivals in Uttar Pradesh, joined hands prior to the by-polls in Gorakhpur and Phulpur parliamentary constituencies in 2018 to defeat the BJP.
The alliance had snatched both the seats from the BJP.
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