Maya dumps 50 per cent
Monday, 16 January 2012 00:00
Biswajeet Banerjee | Lucknow
Trying to undo the anti-incumbency factor the Bahujan Samaj Party has
refused tickets to more than 50 per cent sitting MLAs, including a
dozen of Ministers. BSP national president Mayawati released a list of
403 candidates on Sunday.
Explaining denial of tickets to over a 100 sitting MLAs, Mayawati said
priority was given to candidates with 'clean image' and committed
workers of the party. "The MLAs, who did not work to strengthen the
party and the Dalit movement, have been denied tickets this time," she
told a lunch-on Press conference on the occasion of her 56th birthday
here.
The BSP has fielded 88 Dalits, 85 Muslims and religious minorities,
74 Brahmins and 33 Thakurs. It has given 113 seats to the OBC
community.
Mayawati went a step further on Sunday saying EC took the decision to
drape the statues of herself and elephants under pressure from the
"casteist Congress-led UPA Government". "The decision to cover the
statues lacks propriety and smacked of partisan attitude of the EC
against the BSP ahead of Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls," she said.
The 2012 candidate list depicts a slight shift from the rainbow
coalition of BSP of 2007 when its social engineering formula helped
the party win elections with comfortable majority. In 2007 poll, the
BSP had given tickets to 89 Dalits, 63 Muslims and 89 Brahmins.
This Brahmin-Dalit combination had helped the party win 206 seats.
Later the strength went up to 229.
However, Satish Chandra Mishra, the Brahmin face of BSP, would not
agree that Brahmins had been given fewer seats this time. "It was
almost the same in 2007 too," he said. But, he evaded specific
questions.
The Ministers who were denied ticket this time include Rural
Development Minister Daddu Prasad, Transport Minister Ramachal
Rajbhar, Horticulture Minister Narain Singh, Small Scale Minister
Chandradev, Land Development Minister Rampal Verma, MoS for Urban
Employment Yashwant Singh and MoS for Alternative Energy Akbar
Hussain.
Mayawati said that her ticket distribution had ensured representation
to all the castes and communities in the State. The BSP supremo, who
also released the CDs of the party's theme songs and slogans, said
that this time the party had given tickets only to dedicated workers
who were committed to the party's movement.
She said the BSP was the only party in the State, which had announced
all the candidates in one go and not in phase manner like other
parties.
However, the BSP candidate list also took care of the kith and kin of
the party leaders. BSP State president Swami Prasad Maurya was the
most lucky leader whose son Utkrasht Maurya has been given ticket from
Unchahar in Rae Bareli district while his married daughter Sanghamitra
Maurya had been fielded from Aliganj in Etah district. Maurya himself
is contesting from Padrauna seat in Kushinagar district.
BSP Rajya Sabha member Brijesh Pathak's wife Namrata will contest from
Unnao seat while Shikha, wife of tainted former UP health Minister
Anant Kumar Mishra, has been given ticket from Maharajpur in Kanpur
district.
Samajwadi Party sitting MLA and once a close associate of leader of
the opposition in the assembly Shivpal Singh Yadav, Sandhya Katheria
has been given ticket from Kisni seat in Mainpuri district.
The party has also given ticket to Arun Dwivedi from Lucknow (North)
seat against whom BJP has charged of floating more than 100 ghost
companies to use the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) scam money.
However the party has denied ticket to NRHM accused Ramprasad Jaiswal,
the sitting MLA from Barhaj in Deoria district and gave candidature to
his wife Renu. Similarly, the party has given ticket to Sanjay Kumar
Rajbhar, son of state transport minister Ramachal Rajbhar from
Akbarpur seat.
Master stroke?
Mayawati releases a list of 403 candidates
BSP has fielded 88 Dalits, 85 Muslims and religious minorities, 74
Brahmins and 33 Thakurs
A dozen of Ministers — including RD Minister Daddu Prasad,
Transport Minister Ramachal Rajbhar, Horticulture Minister Narain
Singh — were denied ticket
However, the list took care of the kith and kin of the party leaders
The MLAs, who did not work to strengthen the party and the Dalit
movement, have been this time denied tickets, says Mayawati
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