BSP withdraws support to UPA Government at Centre

In an inconsequential move, which may not have any impact on the coalition government at the centre, Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) withdrew support to the UPA government with immediate effect. BSP supremo and UP CM Mayawati has formally written to the President in this regard. The BSP has 17 MPs in the Parliament.

Mayawati's move came after it apparently became clear that Congress is inching closer to her bete noire Mulayam Singh Yadav and the Samajwadi Party. Mayawati has been criticising the UPa government for the past few months.