LUCKNOW: Chief minister Mayawati said on Sunday that the Bahujan Samaj Party would support the Bharatiya Janata Party in Gujarat assembly polls on seats where her party has not put its candidates . Of the 182 Gujarat vidhan sabha seats , the BSP has fielded candidates on 31 seats.Talking to mediapersons , the chief minister said her party had a sizable support-base in Gujarat but not enough to win the poll on its own on majority of seats. Therefore, the BSP would transfer its votes to the BJP on seats where it has not put candidates, said Mayawati. The chief minister, who is also BSP vice-president , said that she took the decision to support the BJP candidates in consultations with BSP supremo Kanshi Ram.Mayawati said that she had agreed to address two public meetings at Surat and Ahmedabad in support of the alliance candidates at Gujarat on Monday. At both the meetings, she said, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will also speak. Mayawati said that she would also address an election meeting at Rudrapur in Uttranchal where by-poll for the Nainital Lok Sabha seat was being held. This seat fell vacant after Uttranchal chief minister N D Tiwari quit it after his election to the vidhan sabha. Defending Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, Mayawati said that the allegations levelled against him (Modi) by the Congress party were false.Why should Modi indulge in this kind of act, she asked. On Ram Vilas Paswan's visit to Gujarat, she said that his party did not have any support base in Gujarat . Moreover, she said, Paswan was inconsistent in his stand, and was speaking for and against Congress.

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