India, Jan. 16 -- Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will contest all elections across the country, including the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, on its own, and it would form a government with a full majority in the state, BSP chief Mayawati said on Thursday. Addressing a press conference in Lucknow on her 70th birthday, Mayawati said the party had decided that it was "more appropriate" to fight all small and big elections independently and would not enter any kind of alliance with any party.

"There should be no confusion about this. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will contest the next Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh alone," she said. She, however, added that in the future, if the party became fully convinced that an alliance partner could...