{"id":313654,"date":"2019-06-24T07:40:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T07:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=313654"},"modified":"2019-06-24T07:40:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T07:40:54","slug":"mayawati-ends-alliance-with-sp-says-will-fight-all-elections-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/mayawati-ends-alliance-with-sp-says-will-fight-all-elections-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayawati ends alliance with SP, says will fight all elections alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-299905\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/22a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1045\" height=\"645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a.jpg 1045w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-1024x632.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-356x220.jpg 356w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-696x430.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/22a-680x420.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1045px) 100vw, 1045px\" \/>Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Monday announced that her party would contest all elections on its own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">She firmly puts an end to the alliance with Samajwadi Party after weeks of uncertainty.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;The Samajwadi Party&#8217;s behaviour after Lok Sabha general elections compels BSP to think whether it would be possible to defeat the BJP by continuing the alliance. Therefore, in the interest of the party and the movement, the BSP will now fight all elections \u2013 big or small -on its own,&#8221; Mayawati said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSP had taken several anti-dalit measures during its tenure in 2012-17 in Uttar Pradesh, but the BSP decided to join hands with SP in the interest of the nation,\u201d Mayawati added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mayawati had earlier attacked the Yadav family and accused Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav of &#8220;working hand in glove with the BJP&#8221; to frame her in Taj corridor case.\u00a0She also accused Akhilesh of not calling after the results and working against non-Yadav and backward communities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Monday announced that her party would contest all elections on its own. She firmly puts an end to the alliance with Samajwadi Party after weeks of uncertainty.\u00a0 &#8220;The Samajwadi Party&#8217;s behaviour after Lok Sabha general elections compels BSP to think whether it would be possible to defeat the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":299905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[947,1005,843],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313655,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313654\/revisions\/313655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/299905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}