Lucknownama
Express News Service Posted online: Monday , Apr 12, 2010 at 0210 hrs
Lucknow : Coming soon: Mayayug
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has turned editor. In fact, she is
the chief editor, printer, publisher and owner of Mayayug — the
official mouthpiece of the party. Dummy copies of the magazine
recently reached select partymen. As could be expected, it is Mayawati
all over, with very little other reading material. Even the editorial
is on Mayawati — Sarva samaj kee asha kee ekmatra kiran (The only ray
of hope for Sarva Samaj). It's going to be a quarterly publication,
though initially it was planned as a monthly magazine, said a BSP
leader. It will come out soon after legal formalities — like getting a
registration number — are completed.
No more Ansari blues
Bahujan Samaj Party MLA from Dildar Nagar, P N Rai, is a relieved man
after the government sent don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari from
Ghazipur to Mathura jail. Rai's constituency Dildar Nagar has ceased
to exist after delimitation, and he had been eyeing Mohammadabad,
which Mukhtar's brother and SP legislator Sibgatullah Ansari currently
represents in the Assembly. Rai had even told Chief Minister Mayawati
that he would like to contest from Mohammadabad in 2012. Mayawati had
reportedly assured him, but Rai still had doubts in view of the clout
of the Ansari brothers. In the Lok Sabha elections last year, the BSP
had fielded Mukhtar from Varanasi and his brother Afzal from Ghazipur.
In spite of being an SP legislator, Sibgatullah had campaigned for
Mukhtar. The talk in the political circles was that, as part of the
one-in-three deal, Sibgatullah had been assured of BSP nomination from
Mohammadabad in 2012. The shifting of Mukhtar to Mathura jail shows
that Mayawati no longer needs him. Rai can now relax.
Where is the money?
The Samajwadi Party has announced a series of programmes for the next
three months to strengthen the organisation and woo the most backward
among the OBCs. It begins with party conventions in every Assembly
constituency from April 15, followed by a OBC convention in Kanpur on
April 19, and then similar meetings at divisional level across the
state. The SP leaders from districts are asking for financial
assistance from the party headquarters for organising these
programmes. They say they had mobilised resources at the local level
for the fortnight-long cycle yatras in March, but can't do it again.
The SP headquarters is asking them to take the help of MLAs and MPs.
But how much money can the MPs and MLAs of an Opposition party raise?
All for media space
The Rashtriya Lok Dal has decided to take out torchlight processions
at district headquarters on April 13 to protest against inflation and
corruption prevailing in welfare schemes of Centre and the Uttar
Pradesh government. The party chose April 13 because it's the eve of B
R Ambedkar's birth anniversary. But why not Ambedkar's anniversary?
Well, that day, the Congress will launch its statewide yatras in
Ambedkarnagar, while the BSP will hold a big rally in the town around
the same time against the Women's Reservation Bill. Between these two,
any programme organised by a small party like RLD that day will get
squeezed out for media space. So, the best slot was the eve of
Ambedkar's birth anniversary, reasoned party general secretary Munna
Singh Chauhan.
An unhappy lot
The government decision to transfer 1989-batch IAS officer Sanjay
Bhoosreddy from Lucknow to Allahabad has not gone down well with IAS
officers. Bhoosreddy is honorary secretary of the Uttar Pradesh IAS
Association and there has been a tradition that the government
generally does not transfer the association president and secretary
out of Lucknow. Once even a government order was issued against
shifting these office-bearers outside the state capital, claimed an
officer. The IAS officers see in Bhoosreddy's transfer an attempt to
weaken the association which, in any case, is not very active. About a
year ago, the government had transferred Chandra Prakash — secretary
of the IPS Association — to Allahabad. The IPS Association had then
appointed another officer, Renuka Mishra, in his place.
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