Lucknow. Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has decided to support NDA’s Vice Presidential candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar. Mayawati will also announce this today. Mayawati said that the BSP has taken this decision keeping in mind the larger public interest and its movement.
Mayawati tweeted: Announcement of support to Jagdeep Dhankhar
- BSP supremo Mayawati tweeted that it is well known that due to the lack of consensus between the power and the opposition in the election for the post of the country’s highest president, the election was finally held for it.
- Now due to the same situation, the election for the post of Vice President is also going to be held on 6th August.
- In such a situation, in the election being held for the post of Vice President (Vice President Election 2022), keeping in mind the wider public interest and also its movement, it has been decided to extend its support to Jagdeep Dhankhar and whose I am formally today. I am also announcing
Let us tell you that even before the NDA had declared Draupadi Murmu as its presidential candidate, BSP chief Mayawati was the first to announce her support.
At that time, Mayawati had said that while supporting Draupadi Murmu (President), her party had announced support for Murmu for the presidential election only because she was a Scheduled Tribe woman.
Mayawati had also said that it should not be seen as an endorsement of the ruling BJP or NDA. Along with this, he said that the BSP has taken this decision independently. It is neither in support of the ruling party nor against the opposition.