Was jailed when tried taking up issues of backward classes:

Former Uttar Pardesh minister Babu Singh Kushwaha today accused BSP of doing nothing for backward classes and said a conspiracy was hatched to send him to jail when he tried taking up their issues.
"BSP governments did nothing for backward classes and when I tried taking up their issues, a conspiracy was hatched and I was sent to jail," he alleged while addressing a public meeting here.
Kushwaha was the minister for Family Welfare in the Mayawati government and expelled from BSP after the murder of two medical officers in Lucknow exposed the National Rural Health Mission scam.
"In reality, there was no issue concerning NRHM...It was a matter related to law and order which was under the chief minister," he said.

Once a close aide of BSP chief Mayawati, Kushwaha said the party has "deviated from its policy of 'jiski jitni sankhya bhari uski utni bhagidari' (representation in keeping with population) and has adopted 'jiski jitni thaili bhari uski utni hissedari' (representation in keeping with money power).