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Meira Kumar or Shinde as new PM to be Cong's next gimmick: Maya
Last updated on: October 14, 2011 21:25 IST
Sharat Pradhan
Accusing the Congress of playing gimmick after gimmick to woo dalits,
Bahuijan Samaj Party supremo and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati
on Friday predicted that the next game of the party would be to
install a Dalit as the country's prime minister.
"Don't be surprised if the Congress now installs either former
Maharastra chief minister Sushil Kumar Shinde or Lok Sabha Speaker
Meera Kumar as prime minister for a brief period -- solely to impress
the Dalit community," she said during the inauguration of her
multi-billion dream project -- Rashtriya Dalit Prerna Sthal and Green
Garden at Noida on Friday evening.
"While the Congress never allowed Jagjivan Ram to become prime
minister simply because he was a Dalit, their desperation to win over
the community is now compelling them to now put up a Dalit PM, but
only for a brief while," she quipped.
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'Cong won't be able to dent my Dalit following'
Last updated on: October 14, 2011 21:25 IST
At the function, the UP CM sounded the bugle for the launch of her
party's campaign for the forthcoming 2012 state assembly elections.
With an obvious eye on the by-polls, she said, "I am confident that
the Dalits of this country can see through the Congress party's
repeated games. Let me tell you that no matter what it does, the
Congress party will never be able to serve its objective of denting
the my Dalit following."
Terming the gigantic 82-acre memorial-cum-park as the first of its
kind in the country, she said, "I had to undertake this project
because successive governments of different political parties never
cared to give recognition to the rich contribution of these social
reformers, simply because they were drawn from the most downtrodden
strata of society."
Taking on the entire opposition that has been highly critical of her
government's extravagance on projects like this one, Mayawati said,
"First of all I would like to point out that the total expenditure on
all the monuments that I have built during my tenure in honour of
various Dalit icons did not work out to more than one per cent of my
government's annual budget."
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