BSP supremo Mayawati Sunday said the BJP is "panicking" and will face a defeat in the Lok Sabha polls, as she addressed the first rally of opposition grand-alliance in Uttar Pradesh, where she also slammed the Congress, saying it does not want the grouping to win and will only divide votes.
Flanked by Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and Rashtriya Lok Dal's Ajit Singh, Mayawati said the Congress and the BJP have ruled the country for majority of the period post-Independence, but they followed "wrong" policies.
"The Congress has failed, despite ruling for so many years. In the Congress-ruled states, wrongful practices came to notice...so they eventually lost their voter base," she claimed.
For the BJP, she said, it failed to fulfil it promises and, therefore, it "will keep advertising its hawa-hawai (lofty) schemes till the poll results are announced".
"If the prime minister (Narendra Modi) was serious about welfare of poor, they would not have been inaugurating schemes after polls were announced... they would have performed during their five years. In the last budget... whatever announcements were made by the government were nothing but empty poll promises," she said.
"Now that the BJP is panicking, you should know they are on their way out... and grand alliance will come to power," she said.
She said the BJP will lose the elections because of its "policies inspired by hatred, especially their 'chowkidar' campaign. No matter how much the chhote, bade chowkidars try, the BJP will not win", she said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi have often referred to himself as "chowkidar" (watchman) of the country's interest -- both within and outside India, and even prefixed
Mayawati said, "Removing Modi is not enough, (UP CM) Yogi (Adityanath) also needs to be shown the door."
She said if the 'mahagathbandhan' comes to power after the poll, "our government, instead of giving minimum income support, will give employment to poor people."
"Our party performs without making noise. The Congress too has been making tall claims. Haven't they been given enough chances over decades? They were wiped out from several states. The 'Nyay' is not a stable solution for removing poverty."