Mayavati claims Muslims, upper castes backing

By Our Special Correspondent

LUCKNOW, NOV. 29. The Bahujan Samaj Party leader, Ms Mayawati, today said her party had improved its performance in the just held urban local bodies elections in Uttar Pradesh at the cost of both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Samajwadi Party.

Talking to newspersons here, Ms. Mayawati said the results had indicated that in western UP, especially among Muslims and sections of upper castes, the SP and the BJP had been rejected. As a consequence, while the BSP candidates had given a tough challenge to the BJP, the SP nominees lost their security deposits. Results in Agra, Aligarh, Meerut, Moradabad and Bareilly had shown similar trends where the BSP had improved its performance but the SP had lost much of its ground held earlier.

Giving her own analysis of the results, Ms. Mayawati said Muslims earlier stood solidly behind the SP everywhere but now had now changed their behaviour.It was basically a shift in Muslim votes which was responsible for the remarkable performance of her party in the urban local bodies elections in western UP.

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