Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Tuesday said her party will contest the upcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Punjab on its own strength.
BSP went solo in the 2022 assembly election in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. In Punjab, the BSP fielded candidates on 20 assembly seats while SAD contested on 97 seats. The party secured victory on one seat, polling 1.77% votes while SAD bagged three seats, polling 18.38% votes. On February 13, 2024, the BSP severed its alliance with the SAD, ahead of the Lok Sabha election. In Uttar Pradesh, the BSP contested the 2022 assembly election on its own strength and faced the worst electoral debacle since its launch in 1984. Mayawati fielded candidates on 403 seats, but managed to win only one seat, polling 12.88% vote while the party candidates forfeited their deposits in 287 assembly seats.
it had Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) as its alliance, which worked to consolidate rural, farmer, and Dalit voter bases after SAD split from the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) While in Punjab. After the demise of its lone MLA Umashankar Singh from Rasra assembly seat the party has no representation in the assembly. “Full preparations must be made to achieve better results in the upcoming assembly election.
“BSP will go solo in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Punjab in the 2027 assembly election to prevent the BSP from losing party members’ morale due to the potential losses in seats and vote percentages due to electoral alliances,” she said. “The BSP can give hope to the people of the Punjab, those who are unhappy and distressed by the anti-people attitudes of the ruling Aam Aadmi Party as well as other parties like Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),” she said. We should boldly confront the opposition’s tactics of coercion, bribery, punishment, and discrimination,” she said.
In Tuesday’s review meeting, Mayawati directed the party leaders to strengthen the organisation up to the booth level before the assembly election and emphasised the need to field hardworking and honest candidates in the upcoming assembly elections.
