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Mayawati woos Brahmins, again
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times
Lucknow, November 13, 2011
Chief minister Mayawati on Sunday sought to revive and consolidate the
Dalit-Brahmin social alliance, her project that proved beneficial to
her party in the assembly elections of 2007. Elections to the UP
assembly will take place by May 2012. Confident that the Dalits were
firmly
behind the BSP, Mayawati's party, she told a Brahmin workers'
conference: "The four and a half years of BSP rule has been able to
remove the misconception that the (party) is against upper castes or
is a Dalit-based party."
"The state government was concerned about the welfare of the upper
castes (also)," Mayawati said, adding, "when the BSP came to power in
2007, I wrote a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, demanding
reservation in government jobs for the economically weak and
unemployed among upper castes."
In the process, Mayawati tried to play up the traditional
Brahmin-Rajput rivalry (though both upper castes).
"The Congress has decided to make national general secretary Digvijaya
Singh chief minister if it comes to power in UP. On the other hand,
the BJP has decided to project Rajnath Singh as its chief ministerial
candidate. The Brahmins are not going to benefit under the rule of the
Congress or BJP, rather you will be exploited by the other castes,"
she said.
"To misguide the Brahmin community, rival political parties might
project a Brahmin leader as its chief ministerial candidate," she
said.
The upper castes of UP constitute around 15% of the voter base. To
ensure their support, Mayawati has directed party leaders to organise
cadre camps in all the assembly segments (403).
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