Stating that demonic unemployment and menace of drugs were the two outstanding problems of Punjab, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo alleged that the ruling SAD-BJP and opposition Congress were equally responsible for the persisting issues.
Addressing an election rally here, she claimed that her party was quite serious and concerned over these twin problems.
She said her party, if voted to power, would bring all drug addicts out of the menace, root out the illegal business and put the culprits in jail.
Taking to task various parties for "trapping electorates" by doling out pre-poll sops in their manifestoes, the BSP chief warned voters not to be taken for a ride by these tall promises as she claimed that "all the manifestoes will be put in cold storage after the polls."
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"For panacea of ills afflicting Punjab, vote BSP to power," she asserted.
Commenting on the ticket distribution by BSP for the upcoming state polls, Mayawati said that the party had selected candidates with missionary spirit, who were 'miari-damdari' (credible and strong) and committed to party ideology.
The candidate selection was also done after doing 'social engineering' by giving tickets to other castes and communities, she emphasized.
Calling for replacing SAD-BJP government with BSP government, she asked voters to punish PM Narendra Modi for "ill-conceived" 'notebandi' and the support given to it by SAD, the ally of Modi government.
condition of the poor, SC/ST, OBCs, minorities and other deprived sections of the society had not changed even after several years of independence and implementation of Constitution.
"It was due to communal, casteist and discriminatory approach of the Central as well as state governments, including the one in Punjab, towards dalits and other disadvantaged sections that atrocities on these sections had not stopped," she said.
She also raked up the suicide of dalit scholar Rohith Vermula.
Accusing all major political parties of being chips of the same block, she alleged that both Congress and BJP had hatched conspiracy for stalling promotion quota in Lok Sabha.
"Reservation and promotion quota are being diluted for paving way for their eventual discontinuation. Do not vote for Congress, BJP-SAD and others. They all are hand in gloves," she charged.
Mayawati attributed poverty, unemployment and price rise to wrong economic policies of Central governments headed by Congress and BJP.
"BSP is the only party that is contesting polls on its own steam with the support of masses and not with the funds of 'dhanna-seths' (capitalists)," she said.
She also mocked the opposition parties who did 'nataunki' (drama) of celebrating anniversaries of great dalit leaders with an eye on votes of their followers.
"Such 'nataunkibaz' also raised memorials for dalit stalwarts and ate meals in the houses of dalits in order to garner their votes," Mayawati added, warning dalits to be aware of these dramatists.