Blaming the media for its “casteist agenda”, Bahujan Samaj Party supremo (BSP) Mayawati announced her party would boycott TV debates.
Former CM Mayawati said that the media’s attitude had a role to play in the party’s chances in the polls.
The tallest Dalit politician in the country’s statement comes two days after her party clocked in its lowest ever tally of only one seat in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election.
“The work done by the media during the UP assembly elections to harm the Ambedkarite BSP movement by adopting casteist hatred and hateful attitude in the direction of their bosses is not hidden from anyone,” Mayawati said on Twitter.
Mayawati also said that the spokespersons of the party – Sudheendra Bhadauria, Dharamvir Choudhary, MH Khan, Faizan Khan and Seema Kushwaha – will no longer participate in TV debates.
On Friday, Mayawati had said it was the media had falsely projected the BSP as the “B team of the BJP” which in turn drove away Muslims and anti-BJP voters from it.
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