Maywati's low ley birthday celebrations
15 Jan 2010, 1901 hrs IST, Man Mohan Rai, ET Bureau
LUCKNOW: Chief Minister Minister Mayawati, known for her elaborate
birthday parties and public fanfare, celebrated her 54th birthday in a
low key
fashion on Friday.
The BSP czarina also kept away from cutting a cake cutting ceremony in
public but announced public welfare scheme to the tune of Rs 7,312
crores on the occasion. The city was bedecked with blue lighting and
the statues of herself and Dalit icons were decorated with flowers and
special lighting arrangements.
Mayawati's birthday on January 15 was earlier celebrated with much
fanfare and was also marked as "Arthik Sahyog Diwas" (Economic
Cooperation Day), in which BSP cadres collected money to be donated to
the party coffers on the occasion.
But the sensational murder of an executive engineer in PWD allegedly
by a BSP MLA Shekhar Tiwari over the issue of money extortion for the
birthday celebrations saw huge public outcry which led to the CM's
birthday party being spoiled last year.
Later, Mayawati announced that from this year onwards her birthday
would be observed as "Jan Kalyankari Diwas" (People's Welfare Day), in
which BSP cadres reach out to the needy.
BSP general secretary and Mayawati's close aide Satish Chandra Mishra
accompanied by Secretary to the CM Navneet Sehgal distributed blankets
among the poor on the birthday eve.
Children danced under psychedelic lights at a function held in the
CM's residence, which saw senior party leaders and bureaucrats being
present in full strength.
Mayawati as per her past practice also released the fifth volume of
her biography "A travelogue of my struggle and the BSP movement" on
the occasion.
In her book she has recalled how rival political parties like the
Congress, BJP and the SP ganaged up to prevent her from becoming the
Prime Minister during the crissis over the trust vote on the nuclear
deal issue.
She also said that the Congress was opposing the memorials being built
by her government because of its anti-Dalit mindset and causing
hindrances in their completion.
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