Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Sunday said Congress' is so miserable it changed its Chief Minister face for Uttar Pradesh polls within hours of announcement.

"The condition of the Congress party is so miserable in the UP Assembly elections that their CM candidate changed her stand within a few hours. It would be better, if people do not waste their vote by giving it to the Congress. And vote one-sided for the BSP," Mayawati tweeted.

1. यूपी विधानसभा आमचुनाव में कांग्रेस पार्टी की हालत इतनी ज़्यादा ख़स्ताहाल बनी हुई है कि इनकी सीएम की उम्मीदवार ने कुछ घण्टों के भीतर ही अपना स्टैण्ड बदल डाला है। ऐसे में बेहतर होगा कि लोग कांग्रेस को वोट देकर अपना वोट ख़राब न करें, बल्कि एकतरफा तौर पर बीएसपी को ही वोट दें।

— Mayawati (@Mayawati) January 23, 2022

She termed the Congress as a party which divides the opposition votes against the BJP, and urged voters to ignore it. "People of UP see the Congress as a vote cutting party. If the BJP needs to be kept out of power in favour of a government which works for all the sections of the society, then the BSP holds the number one place in this context," she wrote.

2. यूपी में कांग्रेस जैसी पार्टियाँ लोगों की नज़र में वोट काटने वाली पार्टियाँ हैं। ऐसे में भाजपा को यूपी की सत्ता से बाहर करके यहाँ सर्वसमाज के हित में व इनके जाने-परखे नेतृत्व वाली सरकार की ज़रूरत है, जिसमें बीएसपी का स्थान वास्तव में नम्बर-1 पर है।

— Mayawati (@Mayawati) January 23, 2022

Two days ago during the launch of election manifesto for the youth at the Congress headquarters in Delhi, when Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was asked about who will be the CM face of the Congress in UP, she had said that "are you seeing any face from UP in the Congress?". Later in an interview on Saturday, Priyanka had said that she is not the only face of the party.

In the interview, she had also expressed surprise over the low profile campaign of the BSP.

(Edited by : Aditi Gautam)

First Published:Jan 23, 2022 2:19 PM IST