[ZESTCaste] Slim victory margin behind Maya’s sacking spree

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Slim victory margin behind Maya's sacking spree

RAMENDRA SINGH Posted: Jan 06, 2012 at 0305 hrs
Lucknow BSP chief Mayawati has sacked several of her ministers and
denied them and several MLAs the party ticket, claiming they failed to
discharge their duty or misused their official position. However,
records reveal that most of them had won by a small margin in 2007
and, according to a BSP leader, would not have been able to defy
anti-incumbency factor this time.

In the last few weeks, BSP has sacked and denied tickets to 10
ministers and several MLAs.

The ruling party denied ticket to Bijnor MLA Shahnawaz Rana who
recently joined RLD. During 2007 Assembly polls, Rana had fetched
61588 votes against 61031 votes of Kunvar Bhartendra of SP, winning
the seat by just 557 votes.

Shahjil Islam Ansari was sacked as minister and denied ticket. Ansari
was minister of Wakfs and represented Bhojipura constituency of
Bareilly. Ansari had fetched 39339 votes against 38209 of BJP's
Bahoran Lal Maurya, claiming a win by just 1130 votes.

Ayurveda minister Daddan Mishra who represented Shrawasti's Bhinga
seat was also denied the candidature and subsequently he resigned from
the minister's post and recently joined the BJP.

Daddan had fetched 28707 votes against 28616 of Congress's Mohammad
Aslam, winning by just 91 votes.

BSP also denied ticket to Sahaswan MLA DP Yadav who is now trying to
get into the SP fold. Yadav who had contested on the symbol of his
Rashtriya Parivartan Dal, had received 33883 votes against 33774 votes
of SP's Omkar Singh, winning by just 109 votes. Yadav had merged his
party with the BSP after elections.

Higher Education minister Rakesh Dhar Tripathi, who represents Handia
constituency of Allahabad district, after being denied ticket by the
BSP, is now trying to enter the BJP. Tripathi had scored 62151 votes
against 60809 votes of SP's Mahesh Narayan Singh, winning by a margin
of just 1,342 votes.

Technical Education minister Sadal Prasad, who was also sacked and
dropped from the list of candidates, represents Bansgaon constituency
of Gorakhpur. He had fetched 41586 votes against 39302 votes of BJP's
Sant Prasad, winning by just 2,284 votes.

Secondary Education minister Rangnath Mishra, who resigned after his
indictment by Lokayukta, was also dropped by the BSP from Aurai seat
of Sant Ravidas Nagar which he represents. Mishra had received 53759
votes against 51028 votes of Apna Dal's Rita Singh, and won the seat
with 2,731 votes.

Agriculture Education and Agriculture Research minister, Rajpal Tyagi
who was sacked from the cabinet on December 25, had received 37796 as
an independent candidate from Muradnagar against 34776 votes of BSP's
Wahab, winning by 3,020 votes.

"When these candidates could win with so small margin while there was
a strong anti-incumbency against SP government, they will definitely
will not be able to resist the anti-incumbency factor working against
themselves," said a BSP leader adding that other factors like
corruption charges and delimitation of constituencies have also played
a vital role in the denial of tickets.

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[ZESTCaste] Mayawati to campaign in Punjab on Jan 21-22

 

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Mayawati to campaign in Punjab on Jan 21-22
Press Trust Of India
Chandigarh, January 05, 2012

BSP Supremo Mayawati will address four rallies in Punjab on January 21
and 22 to woo voters, even as the party hopes to fare better in the
state assembly elections on January 30.

BSP MP and national general secretary Narender Kashyap said the Uttar
Pradesh chief minister will
address rallies at Kharar in Mohali and in Nawanshahar on January 21.

On the next day, she will address meetings in Muktsar and at Chhapar
in Sangrur districts.

Kashyap said his party would make significant gains in the Punjab polls.

The party released a list of 21 candidates in addition to the names
for 90 candidates announced earlier for the 117-member House.

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[ZESTCaste] Thackeray warns Dalits over PM’s gesture

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Thackeray warns Dalits over PM's gesture
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
By A Special Correspondent

Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray, in a front page appeal in Monday's
party mouthpiece 'Saamana', has cautioned Dalit voters not to get
swayed by what he termed as a false promise made by the Congress over
allotting 12.5 acres of Indu Mills land for the proposed grand
memorial for Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar. "They want to buy Dalit votes.
The catch is in the 'in principle agreement'. Nobody is sure as to how
much delay it will mean for the transfer of the land," said Thackeray.
He was reacting to the hoardings put up by MPCC all over the city,
thanking the Congress-led UPA government for the decision.

Thackeray added that Republican faction leader Manoj Sansare has
already slammed the announcement, arguing that the Congress has made
the assurance with an eye on the Dalit votes for the ensuing BMC
elections. The Sena chief alleged that the Congress has had the habit
of making such pre-poll announcements like the recent 4.5 per cent
reservation for minorities. It has been making such announcements on
the Belgaum border dispute for the last 56 years, so also the mill
workers in Mumbai have been fooled by the Congress over homes on mill
land," he said.

In a sarcastic taunt at Republican Sena leader Anandraj Ambedkar, he
remarked, "Nobody should be in 'Anand' (joy) or get floored by this
announcement. The Congress has made the announcement so that it can
get en-bloc votes of the Dalit community." He urged the Dalit
community to make a resolve that they shall defeat the Congress and
vote for the Shivshakti-Bhimshakti alliance back to power in the BMC
and for construction of a grand memorial for Dr. Ambedkar.

Meanwhile, RPI-A leader Ramdas Athavale has upped the ante by
demanding that the promised transfer of land for the memorial be done
before January 26 or else there will be an intense agitation.
Mantralaya sources added that the BMC has been asked to look into the
issue of granting FSI for the proposed memorial.

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[ZESTCaste] With scams & murders, Uttar Pradesh in thick of action in 2011; testing times for Mayawati

 

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6 Jan, 2012, 10.56AM IST, PTI
With scams & murders, Uttar Pradesh in thick of action in 2011;
testing times for Mayawati

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LUCKNOW: Scams, murders and controversies reigned supreme in Uttar
Pradesh in 2011 providing testing times for Chief Minister Mayawati
amid heightened political activities which saw Congress and SP
preparing to give a tough fight to the BSP in the coming assembly
polls.

In the midst of the problems, the chief minister moved a proposal to
divide the state into four parts and also got it hurriedly passed in
16 minutes in the assembly.

The move, seen by analysts as one to address to the demand being
raised from different regions, especially Bundelkhand and Purvanchal,
and in turn gain from it in the coming elections, also stunned her
political opponents.

It not only pushed the ball back in the court of Central government
and cornered the Congress but also forced others like the SP and the
BJP to take a clear stand on the issue which either way is likely to
benefit BSP's poll prospects.

The year also saw more than five ministers losing their berths
following inquiry by the state Lokayukta who received complaints of
serious corruption charges against 22 ministers and 28 MLAs, mostly of
the ruling BSP.

With an eye on the assembly elections, all the major parties undertook
extensive yatras with the Congress' Rahul Gandhi and SP's Akhilesh
Yadav leading the way.

The Gandhi scion first went to Bhatta Parsaul followed by his arrest
in May while expressing solidarity with farmers agitating for better
land compensation and then undertaking massive mass contact programmes
attacking the BSP.

The farmers' agitation brought into focus lacunae in land acquisition
process underlining the need for a new bill. Land acquisition in
various villages in Noida extension was also set aside by the court
leaving thousands of allottees in the dark.

For the first time, Mayawati's family was also in the line of
Opposition fire with the BJP launching a campaign against her brother
Anand Kumar for allegedly floating fake firms in the NCR region in a
scam which it claimed could run into Rs 10,000 crore.

The state witnessed major train and road accidents with 69 people
losing their lives in Kalka Mail derailment in Fatehpur district in
July and 38 others being killed when a passenger train rammed into an
express train at an unmanned railway crossing in Kanshiram Nagar just
a couple of days earlier.

As many as 41 people died in Ballia in August when the tractor trolley
in which they were going overturned and ITBP recruitment drive in
Shahjahanpur in February saw the tragic death of 15 youth travelling
on train tops.

Two sitting BSP MLAs Shekhar Tripathi and Anand Sen Yadav were
convicted in the engineer Manoj Kumar Gupta and Shashi murder cases
respectively of Auraiya and Faizabad.

The UP Assembly set a new record of sorts of holding the briefest
winter session of a day which passed important resolution of division
of state and supplementary demands.

Veteran Hindi litterateur Lal Shukla Amar Kant earned national acclaim
winning Jnanpith award. But sadly, he died 10 days after receiving the
award on October 18.

Besides, long time confidante Babu Singh Kushwaha falling out of
favour of Mayawati and being shown the door, sitting SP Rajya Sabha MP
Rashid Masood joined the Congress.

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[ZESTCaste] Dalits to play vital part in electoral outcome of Punjab polls

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Dalits to play vital part in electoral outcome of Punjab polls

Punjab Newsline Network
Friday, 06 January 2012
By Naresh Kumar Sharma

CHANDIGARH:The Dalits which have a sizeable population play vital part
in the outcome of assembly elections in Punjab. The Dalits account for
30 per cent of the population in the state. The voters belonging to
Scheduled Caste (SC) in the state hold the key to impact the prospects
of the political parties in the state. However, due to lack of
effective Dalit leadership in the state the votes of weaker sections
including Scheduled Castes are polarized among different political
parties in the state

The Bahujan Samaj party despite being strong advocate of Dalia rights
had not been able to cash on the votes of weaker sections in the
state. In the 1992 assembly elections, BSP won nine seats with a vote
share of 16.32 per cent, however it dropped in 1997 to 7.48 and it
managed to win only one seat. Again in 2002, the votes share of the
BSP further dipped to 5.69 and in 2007 it came down as low as 4.1 with
BSP not winning a single seat. In 2009 Lok Sabha elections, the
party's vote share went up marginally to 5.75.

##ad_2##In order to shore up the BSP prospects in Punjab, the BSP
supremo Mayawati will be addressing four rallies in the state on
January 21 and 22 to woo the voters. The BSP MP and national general
secretary Narender Kashyap said the Uttar Pradesh chief minister will
be addressing address rallies at Kharar in Mohali and in Nawanshahar
on January 21. Besides this, she said that Mayawati will also address
meetings in Muktsar and at Chhapar in Sangrur districts.

He said that his party is hopeful of faring better in the upcoming
assembly elections.

However, in case the BSP is able to increase its vote-share it would
damage Congress more as compared to the Akalis as those voters
belonging to weaker sections which do not go with the BSP tend to
incline towards Congress. But in case the BSP manages to get more
votes or increase its vote-share among Dalits or weaker sections, it
would certainly hurt Congress The polarization of votes of weaker
sections between the BSP and Congress will help the SAD-BJP combine
on account of division of votes of Dalits.

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