Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati once again turning her guns at the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mayawati recently point her finger to PM’s newly launched campaign Stand Up India by saying Stand up India scheme was an eyewash with no serious purpose other than to get dalit votes in the next Uttar Pradesh assembly polls.

Mayawati said in her statement “Before attempting to socially empower the dalits, Prime Minister Modi should try and fill the reserved quotas for these communities in government jobs’ she also stated "All that is happening smacks of political agenda as there is no serious will to improve the lot of the dalits and the downtrodden," When BJP heard the sentence of Mayawati’s criticism, BJP spokeperson Vijay Bahadur Pathak said that the dalit leader had lost her sense of balance.

He said “Mayawati was rattled by the prospect that the prime minister's schemes could actually empower dalits financially and help them earn livelihoods as opposed to mere promises that she gave them, "The Stand Up India scheme is a lovely example of what we mean by 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikaas' (taking everyone along in progress)," "One has to understand that this has created a complex in leaders and parties that have used dalits as a means to get power rather than working for their welfare," the BJP spokesman said.