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I kept BJP on tenterhooks: Mayawati

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Posted: Jan 18, 2008 at 1015 hrs IST

New Delhi, January 18: Apparently sending a strong signal to the minorities, UP Chief Minister Mayawati has said that despite sharing power with the BJP three times, she always kept the saffron party on tenterhooks.

"I feel that the BJP leadership will have always regretted and repented that Mayawati never allowed imposition of its thought and ideology over her government despite taking support from them", she said.

The BJP leadership might be feeling that "I cared two hoots for them and kept them on tenterhooks", the BSP supreme says in her autobiographical book using the phrase in Hindi "Juti ke nok per he rakha".

Recalling that the first alliance effected by the BSP was with the Samajwadi Party in the 1993 Uttar Pradesh elections, she says that it shows that it was an anti-BJP alliance and aimed at "forcing the saffron party to disemabark from the Rath to Ayodhya".

In the 1000-page book written in Hindi tittled "Mere Sangharshmay jeevan aevam BSP movement ka safarnama", the U P Chief Minister says that "we were completely successful in our strategy".

She says at that time it was essential for the BSP to make timely change in its strategy by aligning with the SP to show an aggressive BJP "its proper place".

While the Congress had been already "angry" with the BSP for ensuring its marginalisation in the politically key state, the BJP too adopted a similar attitude, she says.

The saffron forces were angry because they were unable to make any dent despite forging post-poll alliances with the BSP, she points out.

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