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Kumari Mayawati School-teacher-turned politician, Mayawati has many
‘firsts’ under her name. She was the first chief minister of Uttar
Pradesh to complete a full term of five years in office.

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DEMONetisation won’t hit BSP campaign, says Mayawati

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Kumari Mayawati School-teacher-turned politician, Mayawati has many
‘firsts’ under her name. She was the first chief minister of Uttar
Pradesh to complete a full term of five years in office.

She was also the youngest woman chief minister of a state, when she first took the office on 3 June, 1995.

She is also among the three chief ministers of the state to have
assumed office for four times and the only woman chief minister to do so
in Uttar Pradesh.

She stormed back to power in 2007 assembly
elections winning absolute majority with the support of Brahmins,
Thakurs, Muslims and members of other backward classes, the first by any
party since 1991 in Uttar Pradesh.

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DEMONetisation won’t hit BSP campaign, says Mayawati

LUCKNOW: Urging voters of Uttar Pradesh to teach a lesson to the
Bharatiya Janata Party in the UP assembly polls, Bahujan Samaj party
chief Mayawati said, “Bring BJP down to fourth position in UP polls and
teach them a lesson.” Referring to Modi’s post-DEMONetisation speeches
in Ghazipur and Agra, Mayawati said, “After Modi decided to go ahead
with DEMONetisation, he ridiculed his opponents over how they would hold
public rallies and fight elections. I want to tell the Modi that there
would be no adverse impact of DEMONetisation on BSP as we consider
ourselves as a movement first and political party later.

She
accused the BJP and Modi of deceiving the poor of the country. “You have
compelled everyone to become a fakir and ‘kangaal’ (penniless) by not
fulfilling poll promises you made during 2014 Lok Sabha elections,”
Mayawati said, addressing a crowd that was large given the inclement
weather.

“Modi is feeling threatened and apprehends wipe-out in
the Hindi heartland and to divert public attention he has resorted to
DEMONtisation without any preparation,” said Mayawati and alleged even
25% of the poll promises made by the BJP in 2014 Lok Sabha polls were
not fulfilled.

“BJP leaders are sourcing crowds from other states
for their parivartan yatra and have a crowd of ticket seekers but this
tactic will not work in polls,” she said. She further told the party
workers that the BJP after Ayodhya, is focusing on Varanasi and Mathura.

“In UP, there is jungle raaj and is no rule of law. Mafia and corrupt
are calling the shots. Most of the development work shown today was
started by BSP whether it is Lucknow Metro or Lucknow-Agra Expressway.
If voted to power, we will lodge FIRs which were not lodged,” Mayawati
said, adding cases of illegal possession of land owned by or given to
SC/STs will be dealt with strongly. “Appointments made by this
government would also come under scanner as also media expenses incurred
by this government, and strict action will be taken,” she said.

Mayawati said Congress was in power for a long time but did nothing for
benefit of SC/STs. “Congress, BJP, RSS and SP will use all the possible
resources and tactics to divide your society,” she said and added that
Congress did not implement recommendations of Mandal Commission or give
Bharat Ratna to Babasaheb while BJP had started an agitation against the
commission report.

“In 1989, when BSP had 3 MPs in Lok Sabha,
the then PM VP Singh sought our support. We decided to support on three
conditions—Bharat Ratna for Babasaheb, implementation of Mandal
Commission report and not allowing BJP to implement its Ayodhya agenda.
BJP withdrew support from VP Singh government, which proves they are
against Ambedkar,” said Mayawati, accusing Modi of getting his caste
included in the list of OBCs in 1994 following implementation of
recommendations of Mandal Commission.

“You must learn to gauge
the chaal (move), charitra (character), chehra (face), neeti (policy)
and niyat (intention) of political parties like the BJP and company,”
said Mayawati.

“Political parties like BJP, Congress and similar
parties may give the SC/ST/OBC and people from religious minorities
senior post in the organization. They may make you CM face or PM face.
But, even then the CMs and PMs of these parties would ultimately work as
bonded labourers for their party bosses,” said the BSP chief.

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BJP targeting me because I am a SC and opposed DEMONetisation: Mayawati.

BSP chief Mayawati on Tuesday said that Modi was deliberately
targeting her since she was a SC and opposed the DEMONetisation scheme.

Mayawati said the BJP can’t see a SC having the master key to power,
especially in UP where assembly elections are due. Maintaining that all
the money was deposited in party’s and Anand’s bank account within
rules, Mayawati said that the money which is being talked about was
collected at her Delhi’s party’s office in August itself.

“This
was well before demonetisation scheme came into play,'’ she said.
Mayawati said that the money had to be evaluated before depositing in
the bank account. “We got late in depositing the money. It could be
deposited in the bank only in November,'’ she clarified. “My brother
Anand Kumar has been doing business for the many years. He also
deposited money as per rules,'’ she added.

Mayawati said that a
similar exercise was carried out by other parties, which, however, are
not being targeted. “If Modi is so honest, why isn’t he disclosing the
bank transactions made by BJP 10 months before the note ban came into
effect,'’ she asked.

The BSP chief accused the BJP of resorting
to arm-twisting and trying to bargain with her. “I am always been
targeted whenever elections are round the corner,'’ the Mayawati said.
She said that even the Taj Heritage Corridor and disproportionate asset
case against her was framed by the BJP just before the 2004 Lok Sabha
elections.

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Only BSP can stop BJP from coming to power: Mayawati

LUCKNOW: BSP chief Mayawati on Sunday accused the opposition parties
including BJP, SP and Congress of being in collusion to transfer votes
to each other and stop her party from coming to power in UP.

“Only BSP, not a SP-Congress combine, which was capable of stopping the
saffron party from coming to power in UP in 2017 and them dampening
BJP’s prospects in 2019 Lok Sabha elections,” Mayawati said.

Mayawati said that the opposition was making efforts to ensure that BSP
gets restricted to her core SC/ST vote base and no other community gets
associated with her party. She particularly slammed the BJP of
deliberately targetting her and her family members over money deposited
in bank accounts. Mayawati said that all this showed the deperation of
BJP to malign her with a political agenda. But such allegations, she
claimed, would only help her party to grow stronger and emerge
victorious in the forth coming assembly election.

The BSP boss said that while she was being targetted, many other big politicians were spared by the Modi.

She also attacked the BJP dispensation of running schemes on the agenda
of RSS and then linking them with nationalism to prevent it from facing
criticism. “In fact, the schemes like DEMONetisation was brought in to
facilitate those close to BJP,” Mayawati charged.

She also
accused the BJP of using the money power to manage opinion polls and
divert people’s attentions from its failure. “BJP and Modi should
understand that they can only manage opinion polls but not the actual
result in poll bound states,” she said, adding that Janta will usher in
`Burey Din’ for BJP just like in Bihar. “People will also not fall in
the trap of the BJP through its forthcoming union budget,” she said.