Congress should set its own house in order: Mayawati slams Rahul

Lashing out at the BSP chief, Rahul alleged that Mayawati gave a clear passage to the ruling BJP in the state because of 'the CBI, the ED and Pegasus'

The Congress and the BSP were among the parties that fared the worst in the Uttar Pradesh polls. While Mayawati's party managed to win just one seat, the Congress -- despite Priyanka Gandhi Vadra leading the campaign -- got just two of 403 seats in the crucial state. Credit: PTI Photos

BSP supremo Mayawati on Sunday termed former Congress president Rahul Gandhi's claims that his party had proposed an alliance with the BSP in the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh assembly polls and offered to make Mayawati the CM face of the alliance as 'baseless' and ''devoid of any truth''.

The Congress needs to worry about itself first," she said at a press conference and added that the remarks were an attempt to "malign" her party.

"The Congress should set its own house in order instead of taking potshots at BSP," she pointed out.

Insisting what Gandhi said is 'absolutely false', Mayawati said the loss of Uttar Pardesh elections should be the focus now rather than 'these petty things'.

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She said that Rahul's remarks reflected that he suffered from ''inferiority complex'' even as she sought to portray the Congress as an 'anti-dalit' party, whose leaders never respected BSP founder Kanshiram.

''Rahul Gandhi's remarks that he had proposed an electoral alliance with BSP and offered to make me CM are baseless.....there is no truth in them...Rahul Gandhi is unable to control his party and is telling lies about us,'' she said.

Taking potshots at Rahul, Mayawati said that hers was not a party whose leaders 'hugged' the prime minister and were 'ridiculed' all over the world. She was apparently referring to Rahul's hugging prime minister Narendra Modi in the Lok Sabha in 2018.

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She also said that former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi had called Kanshiram an 'agent' of the CIA, the American intelligence agency.

Rahul, had claimed that Congress had proposed Mayawati an electoral alliance with the BSP and projected her as the CM face of the alliance. ''Mayawati did not reply,'' he claimed. He also said that Mayawati did not enter into the alliance as she was scared of central investigating agencies..

The BSP supremo also accused the BJP of trying to impose one party system in India like China by making the country 'vipaksha mukt' (opposition free).

Both the Congress and BSP had fared badly in the recent polls in UP. While Congress managed to bag two seats, the BSP could win only one seat in the elections.

The remarks -- signifying a rift between the two leaders -- can also be worrying amid the opposition's attempts to unify against the BJP ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

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