Fri. Mar 29th, 2024

Ambedkar Nagar (Uttar Pradesh), May 5 (IANS) Hinting at her Prime Ministerial ambitions, BSP chief Mayawati on Sunday said that she can enter the parliament from Uttar Pradesh’s Ambedkar Nagar constituency, “if and when needed”.

Addressing a poll rally here, Mayawati, while not directly saying that she was in the race to become the Prime Minister, said: “If all goes well, then I will also have to fight the election. The road to Delhi politics passes through Ambedkar Nagar.”

While the Ambedkar Nagar constituency came up only in 2008, Mayawati had been elected four times — 1989, 1998, 1999, and 2004 — from the erstwhile Akbarpur constituency.

The Bahujan Samaj Party supremo also seemed happy with a giant cut-out of her at the rally venue, showing her standing outside the Parliament house and captioned “Prime Minister”.

Asking people to vote for her party’s candidate Ritesh Pandy, Mayawati said: “These elections will see the exit of those who chant ‘Namo, Namo’ and the victory of those who chant ‘Jai Bhim’.”

Mayawati had on March 20 announced not to contest the national polls. However, she said that she could contest later, if required, from any seat held by her party. When I became UP CM first time in 1995 I was not a member of either UP Assembly or Council. Similarly is provision at the Centre where a person has to be a LS/RS member within 6 months of holding the office of minister/PM. Don’t dishearten from my decision not to contest LS poll now’, She said in a tweet on March 20.

It should be noted that Both her partners, Akhilesh Yadav in Uttar Pradesh and Pawan Kalyan in Andhra Pradesh have endorsed her as the next Prime Minister.

She further claimed that In the need of the Hour, winning each Lok Sabha Constituency is more important than winning my seat’.

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