lucknow bahujan samaj party bsp chief mayawati on saturday said she will write to the election commission demanding surveys by media organisations and other agencies be banned six months before any elections so that the polls in the particular state are not influenced by itaddressing the 15th death anniversary of bsp founder kanshi ram here at the kanshiram smarak sthal mayawati demanded that bharat ratna be given to the late dalit leader and added that people in uttar pradesh have made up their mind on changing power in the statesoon a letter will be written to the election commission that surveys in the garb of business by media organisations and other agencies be banned six months before the elections so that the polls in the particular state are not influenced she saidyou know that when the assembly elections in west bengal were going on surveys were showing that mamata banerjee was trailing but when the results came it was the opposite those who were dreaming of gaining power their dreams were shattered and mamata banerjee staged a comeback with a huge majority hence you should not be misled by these surveys the bsp chief told the publicmayawatis remarks came a day after a news channel in a survey showed that the bjp is poised to win the most number of seats in up in the upcoming 2022 assembly polls and retain powershe also said the bjpled centre and up governments are using the state machinery to make the atmosphere in their favourit is also known to everyone that when these tactics do not work then that party bjp will eventually give the election a hindumuslim colour and try to take full political advantage in its garb elections have to be fought keeping this in mind she saidwithout naming any party mayawati also said there are small parties and organisations which may contest the elections alone or jointly their job is not to win the polls but to give advantage to the ruling party from behind the scene to realise their own vested interest hence people of these castes and communities should not come under the influence of these parties and organisationssuheldev bharatiya samaj party sbsp chief om prakash rajbhar had claimed last month that bhim army chief chandrashekhar azad will soon be a part of the bhagidari sankalp morcha and a formal announcement in this regard will be made at a rally on october 27the morcha is a front of likeminded political parties led by rajbhar a former bjp allythe aimim had recently announced that it would contest 100 seats in the state assembly polls next year by tying up with rajbharled sbsp and its bhagidari sankalp morcharajbhar who was a cabinet minister in the yogi adityanath government had resigned before the lok sabha polls in 2019 he had later launched the bhagidari sankalp morcha as a political front of smaller parties