Tribune News Service
Lucknow, June 23
BSP national president Mayawati today hit out at the Samajwadi Party (SP) on many counts, including Akhilesh Yadav not talking to her after the party’s electoral defeat even as she went on to tighten her family’s grip on her party by making some appointments.
Speaking at a meeting attended by newly elected MPs and senior party functionaries, she said despite BSP national general secretary Satish Misra asking Akhilesh to call her, he did not do so.
“I fulfilled the duty of an elder and called him on May 23 to express sorrow at the electoral defeat of the Yadav family. On June 3, when I spoke about the breaking up of the alliance in Delhi, he called up Misra ji, but not me,” she alleged.
According to Mayawati, Akhilesh sent a message to her through Satish Misra that the ticket should not be given to Muslims as it would further polarise votes.
Raking up old issues to make the break-up more bitter, Mayawati said Mulayam Singh Yadav was also involved in implicating her in the Taj Corridor case.
Charging Akhilesh of being unfair to non-Yadav OBCs, she said the SP rule also opposed reservation in promotion for the Dalits.
She held SP leader of Opposition Ram Govind Chaudhary responsible for the defeat of BSP state president RS Kushwaha from the Salempur parliamentary seat by transferring the SP votes to the BJP.
Meanwhile, Mayawati appointed her brother Anand Kumar as the BSP’s national vice-president and her nephew Akash Anand national coordinator. The elevation of Anand's son Akash is being seen a sign as his growing influence in the party affairs.
The suave 24-year-old, who is now a regular in BSP's official engagements, was introduced to party leaders by Mayawati in 2017 when she told them that he had returned from London after doing his MBA and he would look after the party affairs.
Akash, the son of her younger brother Anand, made his public debut in May 2017, when he accompanied Mayawati to Saharanpur. In September 2017, he shared the stage with her and his father at a Meerut rally. Akash is credited with launching Mayawati on Twitter.
from The Tribune http://bit.ly/2WYSQT3
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