GOVT MUZZLING OPPN, SAYS MAYA
MEERUT: Launching a scathing attack on the BJP and RSS, Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati on Monday charged the saffron party with hatching a conspiracy to eliminate her during her public meeting in Shabbirpur village after Saharanpur violence.
Claiming that the situation was worse than Emergency, she alleged that the central government had let loose the government agencies on opposition leaders to intimidate them.
“The present situation is worse than the Emergency. The BJP is weakening democracy in the country and misusing CBI and other government agencies to silence the leaders of rival parties,” she said.
“The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had the plan to trigger violence in the village in case I made a provocative speech in support of Dalits. BJP ka plan mujhe hamesha ke liye dafan kar dena tha jis se ki BSP khatam ho jaye (BJP wanted to eliminate me to decimate the Bahujan Samaj Party),” Mayawati alleged.
“They failed to assess me. I always make my statement in accordance with the situation,” she said. Without naming Bhim Army which was held responsible for violence in Saharanpur, Mayawati said the conspirators managed an organisation to execute their plan and lodged cases against it when their plan was exposed.
Terming BJP and RSS as antiDalits and anti-poor, she reminded the people about the Rohith Vemula case, atrocities on Dalits in Gujarat’s Una and Saharapur violence to support her claims.
“I decided to resign from the Rajya Sabha on July 17 when I was not allowed to raise my voice against atrocities on the poor and Dalits,” she said.
Comparing her move with the resignation by the then law minister and Dalit icon Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar in September 1951, Mayawati said: “Babasaheb resigned in protest of the lackadaisical attitude of the Nehru-led government in providing women rights equal to men and in support of demand for a commission for reservation to OBCs. Following his footsteps, I also resigned when the ruling party stopped me from speaking for Dalits and poor,” she said.
Targeting Modi for making hollow promises to the people, she said the union government was working for the benefit of capitalists and was implementing the agenda of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) which had nothing to do with the welfare of Dalits, OBCs and underprivileged sections of the society.
The BJP had the plan to trigger violence in the village in case I made a provocative speech in support of Dalits. BJP ka plan mujhe hamesha ke liye dafan kar dena tha jis se ki BSP khatam ho jaye MAYAWATI, BSP chief