Modi and Mulayam communal, says India’s Mayawati

Bahujan Samaj Party, supremo Mayawati once again put trust in her time-tested social engineering formula, rather than popular faces for all the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh.
To give thrust to her social engineering formula, she has fielded 17 Dalit candidates, 15 backwards, 21 Brahmins and 8 Rajputs. However, to cut into the vote bank of Samajwadi Party and Congress she has given tickets to 19 Muslims. Majority of the Muslim candidates have been fielded from constituencies located in west UP and Rohilkhand that have their sizeable presence.
In an exclusive talk with ‘Arab News’ BSP supremo spelt out her post poll plan of not joining any front of which her arch-rival Mulayam Singh Yadav was a part even as she accused the SP chief of playing a communal card to polarise society. Ruling out any pre-poll alliance, she said the doors for post-poll alliance were, however, open. “Right now the BSP’s aim is to emerge as the ‘balance of power’ at the centre and join a secular front to check the BJP-led NDA government (if NDA forms a government).”
She promised to curb terrorism, check Maoists and to create an atmosphere that would be free from injustice, crime, exploitation and fear. Elucidating the foreign policy, Mayawati said while signing international agreements my party would ensure that the security of the country, self respect and sovereignty was not mortgaged as was done under the Congress led UPA government. “Their target was a terror strike,” S.N. Srivastava, a top police official in New Delhi, told a news conference on Sunday, but declined to comment when asked if Narendra Modi was being targeted, saying they needed further investigation.
“Any important event, including elections, could be targeted.”
Interior Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said the arrest of Waqas was a great success as he was a crucial link to the group.
The government outlawed Indian Mujahideen in 2010 after it was suspected of involvement in an attack on a cafe popular with foreigners in the western Indian city of Pune in which 17 people died.