Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Wednesday sought to dismiss Arvind Kejriwal's definition of the aam aadmi and said the Dalits are not part of that category or else they would not need special provisions.
The BSP leader accused Kejriwal, the AAP convener and Delhi CM, of conspiring to prove that the Dalits and downtrodden people of the country are also the common man.
"The Dalits and other downtrodden people cannot be put in the list of aam aadmi. There wouldn't have been the need to form the BSP if the Dalits were treated as aam admi," Mayawati said at a mammoth rally organised on the occasion of her 58th birthday at Ramabai Ambedkar Ground in Lucknow.
"They wouldn't have been stopped from entering temples… The Dalits are still not tolerated, even in Haryana from where Kejriwal comes. Their land is being grabbed by powerful people," she said.
Mayawati's assertions seem to be an attempt to rewrite her Dalit-centric agenda from which she had deviated before the 2007 Assembly elections.
Putting an end to the rumours of a pre-poll alliance with the Congress, she said: "I want to make it clear that we will not ally with the Congress. The BSP will contest election on all 80 seats of UP on its own."
On the controversy over the recently concluded Saifai festival, the BSP supremo said: "It was moral responsibility of big artistes like Salman Khan to stay away from the celebrations in SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav's village Saifai. The leaders in the government misused public money for their personal entertainment."
The BSP leader told the rally that "Dalits and other downtrodden people cannot be put in the list of aam aadmi."
A supporter holds a cutout of the Indian parliament with an image of Mayawati
Source of info - Daily mail
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