Mayawati unveils poll campaign from Tvm
Sunday 22 March 2009

BSP supremo Mayawati has kicked off her party's poll campaign for the upcoming LS elections with a massive rally at Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday.

Claiming that BSP has gone beyond Uttar Pradesh and northern states, her campaign launch from Kerala is seen as a strategic move to woo the Southern states.

Maya who addresed the rally, maintained that she would bat for the poor and the minorities including Dalit christians and upper caste poor.

With BSP going alone contesting all the 20 seats in Kerala, its rival party Samajwadi party(SP) has said that it would support the UDF in the elections though SP is not contesting any seats in Kerala.
--MP