LUCKNOW: A day after Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad ‘Ravan’ referred to
Mayawati as ‘bua’ (aunt), BSP chief Mayawati said there were some people, who for their “political benefits, in their defence or to show themselves as young” were unnecessarily trying to establish a “bhai-behen” or “buabhatija” relationship with her.
The other person who has referred to Mayawati as bua is SP president
Akhilesh Yadav, with whom Mayawati is being expected to contest the 2019
Lok Sabha elections. The bua-bhatija jibe is often deployed by BJP when it has referred to the possible alliance between SP and BSP. The former UP CM, who has often accused Azad of being set up by BJP, referred to the caste clashes in
Saharanpur in 2017, after which Azad was arrested, as a well thought out strategy by BJP.
Dalit sympathisers should join BSP and not form separate organisations: Maya
She said: “The person who was released recently by BJP has been trying to cover his shortcomings by trying to unnecessary establish a relationship with me by calling me bua. I would like to tell such people that I can never have a whole-hearted or a respectful relationship with them.” She added that they were genuine sympathisers of the Dalit cause and there was no need for them to make separate organisations. Instead, they should have joined BSP.
Issuing a warning to Dalits, tribals and backwards, she said that each year several thousand organisations are made from within these communities which are used to provide bread and butter to their management. “They say something but then do something completely different. I would like to warn people to be careful of such persons and their organisations,” she said
BSP chief Mayawati (File photo)
