Soon after the formal announcement of the BSP-SP alliance on Saturday, Tejashwi had welcomed the new combination calling it a formidable alliance, which would pave the way for complete rout of the BJP in Uttar Pradesh where the saffron party is in power.
A day after once-arch rivals Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samajwadi Party announced their tie-up in Uttar Pradesh for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls sharing 38 seats each and keeping the Congress out the alliance, RJD's Tejashwi Yadav meet BSP supremo Mayawati in Lucknow om Sunday to congratulate her on stitching an alliance.
Speaking after the meeting, he said; "There's atmosphere today where they want to scrap Baba Saheb's constitution and implement 'Nagpur laws'...People welcome step taken by Mayawati ji & Akhilesh ji. BJP will be whitewashed in UP & Bihar. They won't win even 1 seat in UP, SP-BSP alliance will win all seats".
Soon after the formal announcement of the BSP-SP alliance on Saturday, Tejashwi had welcomed the new combination calling it a formidable alliance, which would pave the way for complete rout of the BJP in Uttar Pradesh where the saffron party is in power.
Earlier on Saturday, making an announcement jointly with Akhilesh Yadav, Mayawati mocked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah.
“This press conference will rob the guru-chela of their sleep,” she said.
"I have full confidence that just as our alliance defeated the BJP in the Lok Sabha bypolls, we will crush the saffron party in the general elections," she said, referring to the BJP's defeat in Phulpur, Gorakhpur and Kairana parliamentary bypolls.
