Maya's decision a death kiss for Congress
Santwana Bhattacharya
First Published : 01 May 2010 03:04:00 AM ISTLast Updated : 01 May
2010 02:20:52 PM IST
NEW DELHI: Mayawati's decision to support the UPA Government to help
pass the Finance Bill as well as defeat the Opposition-moved cut
motions, could prove to be a death kiss for the Congress. Its grand
plan of wresting the BSP's core vote-bank, the Dalits, before the 2012
Uttar Pradesh elections seems to be the first casualty.
That Mayawati may have got more than her pound of flesh (that is,
relief in the CBI cases) in exchange of BSP's support to the Manmohan
Singh Government, is becoming quite apparent by the day.
First, Congress general secretary in-charge of UP, one of Mayawtai's
staunchest critics, Digvijay Singh, refashioned his political agenda
by actually acknowledging the good turn she did to the Congress-led
government in the Centre.
Toning down his harsh rhetoric, Singh also went on to appreciate her
recent pro-farmer initiatives as he almost benignly advised her to
give some more attention to the state's law and ordered situation. It
was not so long ago that he called Mayawati, 'Daulat ki beti' and 'Not
Dalit ki Beti' after she was garlanded with currency notes allegedly
worth Rs 22 crore.
Sources in the Congress say, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee
vigorously defended Mayawati's garlands while he was convincing the
skeptical Congress floor managers to play footsie with the BSP before
the cut-motion voting.
In Parliament, the new bonhomie between the two parties is visible in
more ways than one. They are certainly not keeping each-other at arms
length. The Congress-BSP together picked on the issue of Gujarat Chief
Minister Narendra Modi's 'derogatory' comments on the Dalit community,
in the Rajya Sabha.
Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the Congress, the BSP MPs exhibited
their lung power in the Upper House leading to two adjournments on the
Dalit issue.
After the recent voting, the UPA Government's numbers in the Lok
Sabha, without the support of the 21 BSP MPs, no longer remains a
secret; it stands at 271 (on the cut-motion day, three absent MPs
brought the count down to an embarrassing 268).
Under the circumstance, the grand old party can hardly take on the
temperamental UP Chief Minister in her own bastion.
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