PATNA, June 27 -- With the election scheduled in October-November this year, yet another political party on Thursday announced its arrival in Bihar -- this time it is Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) of former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati. Talking to media persons in Patna, BSP national coordinator and Mayawati's nephew Akash Anand said that the party would step up preparations in Bihar with the aim of contesting maximum seats on its own. A senior party leader of the party said that in the coming days, BSP would increase its activity and could contest on all seats going solo, as there was no indication of joining any alliance so far. Anand was in Patna along with Rajya Sabha MP Ramji Gautam in connection with a function to mark the anniversary of Chhatrapati Shahji Maharaj. "We will strive to realise the dreams of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar and Chhatrapati Shahji Maharaj in Bihar," he said after a roadshow. In the recent elections, Mayawati's BSP has not been a major player in the state. It had contested the Assembly election in Bihar in 2010 on 223 seats, but could win just one, though it had done better in 2005 when the party won four seats. In the 2020 Assembly election, BSP, however, managed to open its account after a gap of 10 years, winning two seats - and Jama Khan from Chayanpur and Ambika Prasad from Ramgarh. BSP had achieved its best in 2000, winning five seats. However, after 2000 it could never repeat the same performance, though it remained a force in the areas bordering UP. It drew a blank in 2010 and 2015. In 2020, Mayawati herself campaigned in Rohtas and Kaimur and the result was that BSP could win two seats. However, even those who won on the BSP ticket did not remain with it for long and switched over their allegiance to the party in power. If all five BSP MLAs joined the RJD in 2000, in 2005 all the four went to the JD-U. The trend continued in 2009 and 2020, when the BSP candidates joined the BJP and the JD-U respectively. But this has. Even a trend with most smaller parties, who found their legislators drifting to the party in power. With the BSP indicating to go solo in Bihar, barely few days after the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) also announced to contest all seats on its own, it is set to make Bihar's electoral battle interesting with new options for ticket seekers not finding berth in mainstream parties....