BSP snaps ties with JJP

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 7

Less than a month after forging an alliance with the Jannayak Janta Party (JJP), the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Friday snapped ties with its partner for the upcoming Assembly elections.

In a couple of tweets on Friday night, BSP supremo Mayawati said their party was a national party and the way the division of seats and ticket distribution was being carried out with the JJP was unacceptable. She claimed that the decision had been taken after recommendation from the state unit of the BSP.

She said the BSP would go it alone in the upcoming Assembly elections and would contest all seats. As per the alliance announced on August 11, the JJP was to contest 50 seats and the BSP was to fight 40 seats in the state.

The BSP had entered into an alliance with the Indian National Lok Dal for the Lok Sabha elections, but walked out of it after nine months and tied up with Raj Kumar Saini’s Loktantra Suraksha Party. After the debacle in the Lok Sabha poll, the BSP walked out of that alliance.

The JJP, on the other hand, had allied with the Aam Aadmi Party, but the parties parted ways after the Lok Sabha elections.