The chief minister urged the public to vote for Dr. Mahesh Sharma, MP and the BJP candidate for Gautam Buddha Nagar. Many leaders of the Samajwadi Party also joined the BJP on the occasion.
Voting for the first phase of the general election will begin on Friday across 21 states and Union territories.
The state has always witnessed the caste factor come into play whenever elections are to be held, but now it is the popularity of PM Modi and CM Yogi Adityananth that is overtaking all other issues.
The BSP changed its candidate in Mainpuri seat from where Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple Yadav is contesting.
Addressing an election meeting in Bisalpur area of Pilibhit Lok Sabha seat to seek support for party candidate Anis Ahmed Khan Phool Babu, Mayawati said her party government in Uttar Pradesh took care of the interests of farmers.
BSP supremo and former Chief Minister Mayawati has raked up an old issue of a separate state in Western Uttar Pradesh.
In her first public meeting in Saharanpur, the BSP chief slammed both the ruling and Opposition parties for their “failure” to provide relief to the poor, Dalits and others in society.
BJP leaders here on Friday said that the initiatives undertaken by the double-engine government have placed the welfare of farmers at the forefront of governance.
BSP chief Mayawati has fielded former party state president Bhim Rajbhar from Azamgarh and Balkrishna Chauhan from Ghosi seat.
Talking to reporters after joining the new party, he said that whoever RLD goes with, will win in this general election.
