Quotas if voted to power: Maya to Muslims, upper castes
Agencies Posted online: Nov 24, 2008 at 2035 hrs
Addressing her second rally in the capital where BSP has fielded candidates in all the 70 seats, she also said her party was committed to extend the quota regime to financially weaker sections of the upper castes as she sought to dispel the notion that BSP represented the interests of only backward castes.
"We will provide reservation to poor Muslims if voted to power," she told a public meeting in Aligaon in south Delhi.
"We are also in favour of providing reservation to the financially poor sections of the upper castes," said Mayawati, who returned to power last year in UP by successfully experimenting with a social engineering formula.
Accusing both the Congress and BJP of being "pro-rich," the Dalit icon said, these parties had always catered to the interests of industrialists and businessmen, on whose support they have thrived.
"BSP, on the other hand, does not depend on this class and has a mass support base," she said vowing to replicate the formula of all-inclusive growth adopted by her party in UP.
"We intend to bring to Delhi our policies of financial and social reform that we have followed in Uttar Pradesh," she said.
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