BahujanSamaj Party President Mayawati has said that her party would contest theAssembly polls in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand alone.
Ina series of tweets on Sunday, she ruled out reports that the BSP would joinhands with Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM in Uttar Pradesh.
"Thisnews is being circulated that the AIMIM and BSP will fight the upcomingassembly elections in UP together. This news is completely false, misleadingand baseless. There is not even an iota of truth in this, and BSP vehementlydenies it," she said.
Shefurther said that the BSP would like to clarify that, except for Punjab, theparty will contest the Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand alone.
TheBSP and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) have allied to contest the 2022 PunjabAssembly elections.
TheBSP, which stormed to power in 2007 by winning 206 seats, was left with just 80seats in 2012.
In2014, Mayawati's party did not win a single Lok Sabha seat, and in the 2017Uttar Assembly elections, it bagged only 19 seats.
WithBSP's support base dwindling over the years, the BJP and the Samajwadi Partyhave been trying to woo the Dalit voters ahead of the upcoming Uttar PradeshAssembly elections in 2022.
InApril, Akhilesh Yadav announced that Samajwadi Party (SP) will constitute aBaba Saheb Vahini named after Dalit icon Dr B.R. Ambedkar.
TheBaba Saheb Vahini aims to bring Dalits into the Samajwadi fold and assure them protectionagainst social exploitation.
TheBJP has now announced that it will build a memorial in the name of Ambedkar.
TheSP and BSP were allies in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
However,immediately after the Lok Sabha elections, Mayawati snapped ties with the partyannouncing that her party would never ally with SP again.