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India needs a Dalit daughter as PM, Mayawati tells Punjab BSP rally

Nawanshahar (Punjab): Making her prime ministerial ambitions clear, BSP chief Mayawati on Wednesday asked people here to vote for candidates of her party so that a "daughter of dalit" could hold the top position.In her

PTI PTI Updated on: April 17, 2014 10:30 IST
"Congress and BJP have been misleading our candidates that they should go for an alliance with them," she alleged.

"But if we do so, the vote percentage of BSP would be reduced to 50 per cent, while opposition parties would end up gaining our votes," she added.

She said even during the Punjab assembly elections in 2012, there was stiff pressure on her from some party candidates to enter into poll alliance with either SAD-BJP or Congress.

"My agenda for the candidates was clear that you work hard and increase your vote percentage so that BSP could attain absolute majority like we achieved in Uttar Pradesh, which is one of the biggest and crucial states of the country," she said.
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