Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati launched a scathing attack on the Samajwadi Party, saying it did not field a Muslim candidate from Kannauj as it cannot see beyond SP president Akhilesh Yadav’s family.

The BSP chief asked the deprived sections, including the Dalits and Muslims, not to cast a single vote for Akhilesh Yadav’s party in the Lok Sabha elections.

Mayawati, who campaigned for the party candidates in Kannauj against SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and other adjoining constituencies, said her party was “clean”. She was referring to the electoral bonds controversy.

Referring to the electoral bonds given to Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress, she affirmed that the BSP never takes money from rich people and this has been made clear by the Supreme Court’s observation that BSP runs its activities only with the financial support received from its workers and candidates.

The BSP chief, who addressed a joint election meeting for party’s Kannauj, Farrukhabad and Etawah candidates, made several political attacks on the BJP, Congress and SP. She said that earlier the Congress governments adopted wrong policies, due to which it was out of the Central and state governments and now the BJP was also walking on the same path.

She said Dalits, exploited and deprived people, Muslims, religious, minorities were suffering in the BJP rule but the government was not paying attention to them and this had caused resentment among the people.

“There is a difference between their words and actions. Therefore, the BJP is not going to return to power at the Centre easily. Under the leadership of BSP, attention will be given to all sections on the lines of Sarvajan Hitay-Sarvajan Sukhaya. No one will be exploited. The welfare work done by BSP in UP four times is now being copied by the governments of other states. If we get a chance at the Centre, we will run the government at the Centre on the lines of BSP's UP model,” she said.

Mayawati said during the SP government, there was discrimination against Dalits and the underprivileged class in the state. “The SP government changed the names of districts, institutions and parks built in the name of Dalit icons. Therefore, they no longer have any right to ask for votes from this class,” she said.

Attacking the BJP government at the Centre, the BSP chief said the saffron party’s promise of ‘achhe din (good days) turned out to be a hoax, and its guarantee was also a sham.

Mayawati said one should not be fooled by the words of these parties. “These people have released manifestos full of empty promises. Later the promises made in their manifestos. The BSP never issues a manifesto. The government has been formed in the state four times without a manifesto. The BSP has done more work than any other party. The public still remembers the work done during the BSP government,” she added.