Bahujan Samaj Party
(BSP) chief Mayawati said
that “her government will thrash the Samajwadi Party (SP) leaders black
and blue after being voted back to power”.

“When the BSP was in power, it had distributed land to SC/STs but it has been forcibly taken over by the SP goons
after their party assumed office in the state. I want to assure you all
that when the BSP will be voted back to power, we will thrash (SP
goons) them black and blue… so much so that they will never think of
repeating the act,” said Mayawati, while addressing a large gathering of
BSP workers in Lucknow on the occasion of 122th birth anniversary of BR
Ambedkar.

She was confident about BSP winning the next
elections because the “people are fed up with the collapse of law and
order as well as governance in the state under SP government”.

Accusing the SP government of acting with political vendetta, Mayawati
said that the large number of hoardings installed by the BSP workers
near SC/ST/OBC memorial — Bhimrao Ambedkar Samajik Parivartan Sthal — to pay
tribute to Babasaheb Ambedkar, were removed by the government officers
under the pressure of SP leaders.

“The SP government knew that
it was Babasaheb’s anniversary and lakhs of people will come to pay
tribute to him. On this occasion, hoardings are installed across the
country for which no permission is required. But in Lucknow, we took
permission from the local body to install hoardings near the Sthal. But
on Saturday night all hoardings within three kilometres of the Sthal
were pulled down on the directives of the SP leaders,” she claimed.

Attacking the SP government on the issue of deteriorating law and order
in the state, Mayawati said that goons are calling shots under the SP
rule. “Women are afraid of stepping out of their houses after sunset.
Crime has increased enormously and there is no rule of law in the
state,” she said. “A 10-year-old girl was raped in west UP and when her
parents went to lodge a complaint, the victim was put in the lock up by
the police, instead of catching the culprits,” she said.


She said, “In last one year, more than
100 communal riots have taken place in UP. Minorities are not feeling
safe”.

Mayawati said that SC/ST will have to get the master-key of politics so that they can get their constitutional rights.

“The status of SC/STs and sarva samaj could be improved only when they
get the political master-key and their government comes at the centre
and in the state,” she said.