BSP to contest all Assembly seats in Jharkhand

VOTE BANK POLITICS: Mayawati said various governments had used tribals in the state as only a vote bank.

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Ranchi: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) President and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati said here that her party would contest all Assembly seats in Jharkhand.

Addressing a rally on Saturday to mark the launch of BSP's election campaign, at the Shaheed Maidan in Ranchi, Mayawati said: "If BSP were to form a government in this state, you can be rest assured that you will also witness a transformation of this state in the same manner as I have done in Uttar Pradesh."

She sought to blame the backwardness of Jharkhand on "misrule by different political parties, particularly the Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)."

Mayawati added: "Successive governments have only used the huge population of tribals and minorities in this state as a vote bank."

Accusing successive governments of having "not done anything to take this state out of its economic and social backwardness", the BSP supremo said: "Poverty and unemployment had driven some people of this area to turn into Naxalites."

She however sought to add: "If BSP were to come to power here, I would make it a point to bring these misdirected Naxalites back to the mainstream of development."

The five-phased Assembly polls will start in Jharkhand on November 25.