Maya says no to two more ministers
Express news service Posted: Dec 27, 2011 at 0343 hrs
Lucknow The ruling BSP has decided to deny tickets for the Assembly
elections to two more ministers — Transport Minister Ram Achal Rajbhar
and Minister of State for Ayurveda Daddan Mishra. However, neither of
them has been removed.
On Sunday, Chief Minister Mayawati had dropped Higher Education
Minister Rakesh Dhar Tripathi, Agriculture Education and Research
Minister Rajpal Tyagi, Backward Classes Welfare Minister Awadhesh
Kumar Verma and Minister for Home Guards Hari Om. All of them have
also been denied the party ticket.
Although there has been no official announcement, party sources said
at least 85 MLAs have been axed so far and the number may finally go
up to about 150, making it almost 75 per cent of the party's 200-odd
legislators.
They said the exercise has been undertaken on the basis of the
feedback collected by party co-ordinators from the field. "The
assessment is that there is an anti-incumbency factor against the
state government and voters are unhappy with the BSP MLAs in most
constituencies," a BSP leader said.
Party chief Mayawati's decision has surprised most of the MLAs who
have been axed, as many of them had been given the go-ahead and asked
to start preparing for elections. Also, Mayawati had stated repeatedly
at party meetings that no sitting MLA would be dropped, unless his or
her constituency had undergone major changes in the delimitation.
"It is nothing but betrayal. The party leadership kept us in dark
until the last moment,'' said one of the MLAs.
The dropping of Ram Achal Rajbhar from the list of candidates has
surprised many in the party. He was elected to the Assembly for the
fourth consecutive term in the 2007 elections and he is one of the
BSP's prominent faces in eastern UP. He has also served as party
coordinator in Uttarakhand. He is one of the very few BSP leaders who
got a ministerial berth in all four governments which Mayawati headed
in the state.
Although the party has decided to field his son Sanjay Rajbhar from
Akbarpur seat in Ambedkarnagar district, the denial of ticket to
someone like Ram Achal Rajbhar shows the depth of the leadership's
worries to fight the anti-incumbency factor, a party leader said.
Other sitting MLAs denied ticket include Pashupati Nath Rai from
Dildar Nagar in Ghazipur district, Ram Shiromani Sharma from Birapur
in Pratapgarh, O P Singh from Jaisinghpur in Sultanpur, Aditya Pandey
from Jahanabad in Fatehpur.
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