LUCKNOW: Emboldened by the stupendous victory in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, BSP Chief Mayawati's eyes are on the national scene as she declared on Saturday that it is now 'Target Delhi' for her party.
Mayawati focussed on the need for the BSP to do well in the 2009 Parliamentary elections while addressing the newly elected party legislators at a meeting at the state party office this morning. BSP has 21 MPs in the Lok Sabha.
Stressing that the next general elections were crucial for the party, she said an impressive showing would catapult the BSP on the national scene prominently.
The media was allowed very briefly at the meeting during which the procedure of her election as the BSP Legislature Party leader was completed.
BSP legislators, who attended the meeting, said that 'behenji' (as Mayawati is popularly called by the party workers) cautioned the newly elected MLAs against influencing transfers and postings.
She dwelt in detail on the success of her new social engineering equation and stressed the need to take along every section of the society.
The idea was to drive home the point that the BSP's new philosophy is to assimilate people of all castes and creed, said another party MLA, who requested anonymity.
The newly elected MLAs had also been directed not to talk to the media under any circumstances, party sources confided.
