By IANS
Raipur : The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) said Wednesday it will contest all the 90 assembly seats on its own in Chhattisgarh later this year.
“The BSP will go it alone in the assembly polls and will contest all the seats,” Dauram Ratnakar, a senior party leader, told reporters here.
Ratnakar, who was the state president of the party till last week, said the BSP had strengthened its base in the state since the last assembly polls in November 2003 when the party won two seats of the 55 it contested.
He said the BSP aimed to become a major force in the state where the dominant political players are the Congress and the now ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
On Jan 19, BSP chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati addressed a public meeting here and promised a three-acre plot to every poor person in the state if her party was voted to power in the 2008 assembly polls.