<p>The decision comes in the wake of the poor showing of the party in the Lok Sabha elections in the state.<br />The bhaichara committees were set up with the objective of bringing the people of various castes together under the BSP fold to ensure the party’s victory.<br /><br />Mayawati announced the decision while addressing a meeting of the BSP MPs, MLAs and other party functionaries here. She said the committees would be re-constituted soon to give better representation to all castes.<br /><br />Apparently irked at the victory of her former principal secretary and congress nominee P L Punia in the reserved constituency of Barabanki, she said the Congress had fielded Punia to humiliate her.<br />“Once the Congress did the same thing to Dr Ambedkar by fielding a person who was his subordinate against him,” Mayawati said.</p>
<p>The decision comes in the wake of the poor showing of the party in the Lok Sabha elections in the state.<br />The bhaichara committees were set up with the objective of bringing the people of various castes together under the BSP fold to ensure the party’s victory.<br /><br />Mayawati announced the decision while addressing a meeting of the BSP MPs, MLAs and other party functionaries here. She said the committees would be re-constituted soon to give better representation to all castes.<br /><br />Apparently irked at the victory of her former principal secretary and congress nominee P L Punia in the reserved constituency of Barabanki, she said the Congress had fielded Punia to humiliate her.<br />“Once the Congress did the same thing to Dr Ambedkar by fielding a person who was his subordinate against him,” Mayawati said.</p>
