New Delhi: Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has withdrawn support from the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government at the Centre.
The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister accused the Centre of neglecting her state while annoucning her decision to jettison the UPA.
"There won't be any electoral alliance neither with Congress nor with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). UPA has left the Taj Corridor case lingering against me for political mileage and its attitude to my state has been very hostile," Mayawati said at a press conference.
"Even after seven months the attitude of the UPA Government has left lot to be desired. Taking this, the interest of the common man and the party into perspective, we have decided to withdraw support from the Congress led UPA Government," she added.
She has written to President Pratibha Patil, Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee and Congress President Sonia Gandhi informing them about her party's withdrawal of support.
Congress Leader, Digvijay Singh, says Mayawati's reasons for withdrawing support were unsustainable.
"BSP withdrawal will not affect UPA Government. The UPA is still in the majority. Her reasons are unsustainable," he said.
NCP chief Sharad Pawar, too, played down Mayawati's support withdrawal. He said the Government was formed without her support.
"When did she provide support to us? When we formed the Government it was without Mayawati," Pawar said.
BSP has 17 Lok Sabha Members of Parliament. Before withdrawal, the UPA had 340 members. The Congress and its allies with 225 MPs had the outside support of Left with 59 MPs, the Samajwadi Party with 39 MPs, and the BSP with 17 MPs.
But now with the withdrawal of BSP's support, the UPA numbers have come down to 323, which is comfortably higher than the half way mark of 272. Only a withdrawal of support by the Left can reduce the UPA to a minority now.
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