Dayashankar Singh, an expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader from Uttar Pradesh, courted controversy again when he called Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati, a “dog”.
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She also raised the issue of the suicide of Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad in January and the incident in Una, Gujarat where four Dalit men were tied and beaten up by a group of cow vigilantes in July for skinning a dead cow.
Dayashankar’s wife, Swati, who shot to fame after BSP leaders targeted her and her daughter during their protests against the former’s comments, challenged Mayawati to contest election against them from any general seat in UP.
Mayawati also went ahead to attack the Congress and said the party lost UP and the Centre due to its wrong policies.
Dayashankar, who was addressing a “jan jagran samelan” in Mainpuri said, “Mayawati is corrupt to the core and has been making money at every given opportunity, including selling tickets”.
Dayashankar was expelled from BJP for making derogatory remarks against BSP chief Mayawati.
A case was registered the next day and the BJP expelled him. “Central government waived off loans of industrialists and the rich worth ‘1.14 lakh crore, even as farmers and workers who have taken small loans of ‘1-2 lakh were hounded and harassed so much that many of them committed suicide”, she said. Later, when asked whether BJP will offer a “chair” to Mishra, Maurya said the party would consider if he (Mishra) wishes so. Later he was arrested and presently on bail.
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Mayawati said she had been demanding reservation for Muslims and other religious minorities on economic lines but the Congress and the BJP had turned a deaf ear to her. “I would like to remind the people that similar misleading surveys had come out before the 2007 Assembly polls as well, when we ended up winning an absolute majority”, the BSP supremo said.
