BSP chief Mayawati has announced that her party will contest almost all 243 assembly seats in Bihar, choosing to fight largely on its own ahead of the upcoming polls. Solo Strategy for BSP Mayawati made it clear that the BSP will not rely on pre-poll alliances. She expressed confidence that

BSP Chief Mayawati attributed her party’s poor performance in the recent Haryana Assembly elections to the “casteist mindset” of the Jat community, urging them to change their mentality. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Tuesday voiced her disappointment over the party’s defeat in the Haryana state elections, blaming the “casteist” mentality