Writing in a Twitter post, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief said: "The Prime Minister is misleading the country by saying that reservation in jobs and education will never be ended
BSP chief Mayawati today joined the politicians who made a beeline to the village, where two dalit girls were brutally gangraped and murdered, and stepped up attack on SP government alleging it was perpetrating "jungle raj" and there was attempt to put the case on the back burner.
Mayawati had publicly announced that no member of her family would ever be office-bearer in BSP
RLD district president Ajit Rathi has also been booked for violation of the poll code
The SUV allegedly belonged to BSP district chief Satya Prakash Kardam
BSP has given 87 tickets to Dalits, 97 to Muslims and 106 to OBCs, according to Mayawati
BSP won a majority in the 2007 UP assembly poll but won only 80 of the 403 seats in 2012
Attempts to elicit a response from BSP on the issue failed
Mayawati's first two major rallies in Uttar Pradesh were in August. She began with Agra, but as the second spot, she strategically chose Azamgarh, the eastern UP constituency that sent Mulayam Singh Yadav to the Lok Sabha (he contested Mainpuri as well as Azamgarh but opted to retain the latter). Her pitch in Azamgarh was less about the attacks on Dalits - although she referred to them - but more about the concerns of Muslims.Between August and now, Mayawati, who had become a bit lackadaisical in addressing political issues after the 2014 general elections in which she got zero seats, has become extraordinarily sensitive to the fears and pain of the minorities, especially Muslims. She was one of the first to demand a judicial enquiry into the circumstances of the Bhopal encounter that resulted in the killing of eight undertrials who were alleged members of SIMI, a banned Islamist student organisation. The Akhilesh Yadav government in power in UP prides itself on being the party that su
Athwale says RPI would ask NDA to allot it 20 to 25 seats in the UP elections
The party said that SP is not concerned about the people of Uttar Pradesh
Singh has been absconding ever since he was booked for derogatory remarks against Mayawati
The Mayawati-led party protested the disparaging remarks against her by a senior BJP leader Dayashankar Singh
At least 500 to 1,000 workers from each district started arriving in the night itself
Alleged that Singh's remarks have hurt the feelings of BSP workers and the Dalit community across the country
Alleges Mayawati has deviated from the mission of B R Ambedkar and party founder Kanshi Ram
Swami Prasad Maurya has left BSP amid speculation that he might join the Samajwadi Party
Addressing a press conference in Lucknow, Maurya said it is a do or die situation for the party in 2017 when the state goes to polls.
He has been accused of the death of DGC Sadhna Sharma who was killed two days ago