"BJP trying to create rift between allies," Mayawati responds to PM Modi's jibe on 'SP-Congress ties'

PM Modi, had said on Saturday, that Samajwadi Party was playing a “big game” against the BSP together with the Congress. He said that SP was going soft on Congress, at the time when BSP chief Mayawati was attacking grand old party.

Mayawati

New Delhi: Former UP CM Mayawati on Sunday responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s jibe at the SP-BSP alliance in Pratapgarh rally in Uttar Pradesh, and accused BJP of driving a wedge between the two allies, amid Lok Sabha elections. PM Modi had said on Saturday that Samajwadi Party was playing a “big game” against the BSP together with the Congress. He said that SP was going soft on Congress, at the time when BSP chief Mayawati was attacking grand old party. In a press conference in Lucknow on Sunday morning, Mayawati said that PM Modi was trying to follow a divide-and-rule strategy but the bond between the two parties would remain unbreakable. She said: “PM Modi is trying to create difference between SP and BSP by bringing Congress in between. Everybody knows that we do not have any alliance with Congress.” “Congress and BJP are alike, despite this, for better good we left the seats of Raebareli and Amethi for Congress, to weaken BJP and RSS forces,” she said and asked the supporters of alliance in Amethi and Raebareli to vote for Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi. "He is trying to create differences between SP and BSP. His pratapgarh rally yesterday shows it. Whole country knows that we have not nor we will have any sort of alliance with the Congress," she added, even as she asked the supporters of the gathbandhan in Amethi and Rae Bareli to vote for Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi. On Saturday, PM Modi had said in UP’s Pratapgarh and Basti rallies, “SP-BSP alliance partners will be at each other's throats when the results are out on May 23.” He said while Mayawati is openly targeting the Congress and its policies, a Congress leader is sharing the stage with the SP. The apparent reference was to Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's presence at an SP meeting in Rae Bareli on Thursday.