Brahmin desertions a big worry for Mayawati
Deepak Gidwani /
DNAFriday, April 16, 2010 0:45 IST
Lucknow: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is suddenly wary of Brahmins in
Uttar Pradesh (UP) who are gradually drifting towards Congress.
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BSP general secretary Naseemuddin Siddiqui spoke to the media on
Thursday and said Brahmins had always been given a place of pride in
BSP. He denied reports that a large number of Brahmin government
advocates had been sacked indiscriminately.
"Opposition parties are playing petty caste politics by spreading
canards about BSP," Siddiqui told reporters. He said 150 government
advocates had recently been dropped for poor performance, but only a
small section of them were Brahmins.
BSP looks understandably wary on this count as chief minister Mayawati
had been pursuing a pro-active Dalit agenda. It was a Dalit-Brahmin
mix that brought Mayawati a majority vote in the 2007 UP assembly
election. Mayawati seems to have realised once again that Brahmins, if
neglected, could drift towards the Congress.
The issue blew up after Mayawati limited the role of Satish Chandra
Mishra, the party's Brahmin face, to the BSP's legal cell. He was kept
away from party affairs.
Within a few days, UP sacked 150 government advocates, all Brahmins,
and all reportedly Mishra's appointees.
This was seen as clipping of Mishra's wings, as also a calculated
diversion from the party's earlier policy of maintaining the
Dalit-Brahmin equilibrium in the party.
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