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| UP election result: Mayawati blames Congress, BJP for defeat; says 70% Muslims picked Mulayam
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| INDIA
, 7-March-2012
4:43:6 AM |
| Unfettered defeat often propels politicians to promise introspection and admit that they failed to give voters what they wanted. Not Mayawati. After resigning as Uttar Pradesh's chief minister today, she praised her government for its hard work and introduction of reforms. Her defeat, she said, was a direct result of the communalization of the elections by the Congress and BJP.
Mayawati's attempt for a fifth term as chief minister was crushed by a state exhausted by corruption, poverty, and an administration that showed no interest in development. Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party won 80 seats, compared to the 206 it won in the last elections that had placed her in power. Not only did Uttar Pradesh punish Mayawati, but it turned overwhelmingly to her old political rival Mulayam Singh Yadav, giving his Samajwadi Party a whopping 228 seats - the strongest mandate for a party in UP in two decades.
Without referring to either him or his party by name, Mayawati said 70% of the state's Muslims, according to her party's analysis, had voted for Mr Yadav. For this, she said, the two national parties, BJP and Congress, must accept blame. Mayawati said the Congress created the problem with its hard-selling of a special quota for Muslims in jobs and universities. Hindu voters, she said, panicked and moved towards the BJP, which played into their fears that the Congress would promote Muslims at their expense. Meanwhile, Muslims found that the Congress was not a strong enough party to back. So they opted for Mr Yadav.
Further damage from the BJP, according to the Mayawati, came via its pursuit of upper caste voters and Other Backward Castes (OBCs). As a result, she said, these votebanks spread their support among different parties including hers. Once again, she claims, Mr Yadav benefitted.
Mayawati was quick to claim that her traditional vote-bank of Dalits or lower caste voters, stood by her. "I thank them from the bottom of my heart," she said.
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