Mayawati Says Crimes Against Muslims Have Gone Up Since BJP Took Power

Launching a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Sunday said the BJP is working on the agenda of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). 
Mayawati, who was in Allahabad addressing a public rally, said: "Atrocities against Muslims, SC/ST and other minority communities have increased ever since the BJP came to power in the Centre. The minorities and Dalits are being harassed in the BJP-ruled states." 
Muslims are being harassed in the name of ‘gau rakhsha' and love jihad, she added. 
Attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mayawati said that the central government has not even fulfilled a single promise that it made in its 2014 Lok Sabha election agenda. 
BSP chief Mayawati is garlanded during a mega rally in Allahabad
"He (Narendra Modi) promised that he will bring back the black money and every Indian will get Rs 15 lakh in his/her account. Have you got a single penny in your account? His promises to the farmers were also fake….. he is just working for the benefit of some business houses," she said. 
She took exception to recent newspaper advertisements by a private telecom company using the Prime Minister's photograph, alleging that Modi was benefiting big business houses by snatching away the land https://telegra.ph/Rath-Yatra-Rituals-06-29 of the poor, waiving loans worth billions, and making state-owned companies suffer to allow private ones to flourish. 
Mayawati also went ahead to attack the Congress and said the party lost UP and the Centre due to its wrong policies. 
"After Independence, the Congress ruled the Centre for 54 years. It also ruled UP for 37 years, but then it was rejected. False promises do not work for long. Rath yatra (of Rahul Gandhi) will not work for the Congress. Projecting an old lady (Sheila Dikshit) who spoiled Delhi during her regime as the chief minister is an evident fact. She had said (when she was Delhi CM) that people of UP and Bihar are maligning the face of Delhi," Mayawati said. 
RELATED ARTICLES Share this article Share Mayawati also termed a pre-poll survey "fake" which projected that her party would end up third, way behind the ruling SP and the resurgent BJP, if assembly polls were held in the state today. 
"Our opponents, especially the Congress and the BJP, have numerous friends among big business people who control the mass media. This makes possible fake surveys wherein we are shown as having been relegated to the position of number three or even number four in the state. I would like to remind the people that similar misleading surveys had come out before the 2007 Assembly polls as well, when we ended up winning an absolute majority," the BSP supremo said. 
Terming it ironic, the BSP chief said: "On the one hand, our opponents try to dismiss us as a spent force and on the other, they allege that people are spending huge amounts to get a BSP ticket for the upcoming Assembly polls in UP. Herein lies a paradox which the common people can see through. But the SP, BJP and the Congress have reached a tacit understanding to create an impression that we are in dire straits." 
Her comments came against the backdrop of leaders like Swami Prasad Maurya, R K Chaudhary and Brajesh Pathak quitting the BSP in the recent past.
(With PTI inputs)