Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on April 30 accused the Congress dispensation in Madhya Pradesh of misusing the ‘government machinery” and declared that her party would reconsider its support to Chief Minister Kamal Nath’s government in the State. Through two tweets in Hindi, Ms. Mayawati hit out at the Congress, saying that the party was no less than the BJP when it came to the misuse of government machinery. She said the Congress government had threatened the BSP candidate for the Guna Lok Sabha seat. Ms. Mayawati said the BSP would contest the election on its symbol and fight to give a reply to this and reconsider the support to the Congress government. In Uttar Pradesh, she said, Congress leaders were telling the public that the BSP-Samajwadi Party alliance should not win, even if the BJP did.

Source: The Hindu April 30, 2019 10:09 UTC