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Maya resignation a 'political ploy' to regain dalit support
Last Updated 19 July 2017, 13:05 IST
The sudden resignation by BSP supremo Mayawati, who is fighting for her survival in Uttar Pradesh, from the Rajya Sabha may be a ''political ploy'' to regain the support of the dalits in the state, according to the political observers and her rivals.
The observers said that Mayawati was wary of the emergence of dalit organisations like Bheem Army and some others in different parts of the state and needed to show that she was the ''lone messiah' of the community and that she was ready to ''make any sacrifice'' to protect their interests.
''Mayawati feels that her resignation may help her in rallying dalits behind her once again,'' says Prof. Dinesh Kumar, a former faculty at Lucknow University.
Kumar said that dalit outfits like Bheem Army could well spoil Mayawati's attempts to win back support of dalits in the state. BSP leaders here also feel the same way. ''Mayawati has always fought for the dalits....by resigning she has once again proved that she could make any sacrifice for them,'' said a senior BSP leader here while speaking to Deccan Herald on Wednesday.
The BSP leaders said that atrocities on dalits were on the rise in UP since the BJP government assumed charge. There had been several incidents of attacks on dalits in the state in the past few months.
Her rivals, however, do not think so and for them, the resignation was only a ''nautanki'' (drama). ''Mayawati is indulging in nautanki...it will not help her in getting dalit support of dalits...she has always used the dalits for her political gains,'' said BJP leader Vijay Bahadur Pathak here.
Dalits in large numbers had held demonstrations in Saharanpur district to protest the arrest of Chandrashekhar, the chief of Bheem Army, who was the prime accused in Saharanpur violence in which three persons were killed in May this year.
BSP could win only 19 seats in the 2017 assembly polls in UP. Mayawati's social engineering (bringing dalit and brahmin together) came a cropper in the assembly elections.
The observers said that Mayawati was wary of the emergence of dalit organisations like Bheem Army and some others in different parts of the state and needed to show that she was the ''lone messiah' of the community and that she was ready to ''make any sacrifice'' to protect their interests.
''Mayawati feels that her resignation may help her in rallying dalits behind her once again,'' says Prof. Dinesh Kumar, a former faculty at Lucknow University.
Kumar said that dalit outfits like Bheem Army could well spoil Mayawati's attempts to win back support of dalits in the state. BSP leaders here also feel the same way. ''Mayawati has always fought for the dalits....by resigning she has once again proved that she could make any sacrifice for them,'' said a senior BSP leader here while speaking to Deccan Herald on Wednesday.
The BSP leaders said that atrocities on dalits were on the rise in UP since the BJP government assumed charge. There had been several incidents of attacks on dalits in the state in the past few months.
Her rivals, however, do not think so and for them, the resignation was only a ''nautanki'' (drama). ''Mayawati is indulging in nautanki...it will not help her in getting dalit support of dalits...she has always used the dalits for her political gains,'' said BJP leader Vijay Bahadur Pathak here.
Dalits in large numbers had held demonstrations in Saharanpur district to protest the arrest of Chandrashekhar, the chief of Bheem Army, who was the prime accused in Saharanpur violence in which three persons were killed in May this year.
BSP could win only 19 seats in the 2017 assembly polls in UP. Mayawati's social engineering (bringing dalit and brahmin together) came a cropper in the assembly elections.
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(Published 19 July 2017, 13:04 IST)
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