‘BSP motto is performance, not issuing fancy manifesto’

Lucknow: Appealing to voters to extend full support to the BSP so that it could return to power and bring back ‘achche din’ which had been witnessed by people under her regime, party chief Mayawati said that bringing back jobs and reducing unemployment would be a major priority for her government.
Promising to revert to the old pension scheme if she formed government, a long-standing demand of government employees who are unhappy with the National Pension Scheme format, the four-time UP chief minister said that people should reject the BJP, the Samajwadi Party and the Congress as these parties have never worked for the people’s welfare.
Hitting out at BJP for communalising elections and for bias against Muslims and other religious minorities, she said: “People are being harassed in the name of caste and religion under the BJP. A BSP government will never allow this to happen. We work on the principle of ‘sarvjan hitaye, sarvjan sukhaye’. Crime against women, Dalits and other minorities has also gone up under the current regime,” she said. She also accused the BJP of giving most government work to private contractors and depriving Dalits of an opportunity to work.
She further accused all Opposition parties of releasing fancy manifestoes, alleging that they were only meant to entice people but these parties never acted on their promises. BSP on the other hand, she said, did not release a manifesto because it believed in performing rather than making false promises.
Mayawati said under SP, the state only witnessed law and order problems and the party was especially insensitive to Dalits and backwards. In disrespecting Dalit icons, the SP government changed names of districts and institutions which were named after Dalit gurus. Congress too, she said, showed similar disrespect as it neither gave a Bharat Ratna to Dr BR Ambedkar nor did it declare even a day’s mourning when BSP founder Kanshiram passed away.