Great wall falls: Mayawati to share dais with Mulayam
Neha Lalchandani, Pervez Iqbal Siddiqui | TNN | Mar 16, 2019, 07:52 IST
Mayawati with mentor Kanshi Ram (centre) and Mulayam in 1993.LUCKNOW:In an unprecedented political move that heralds the fall of the great wall of acrimony, BSP supremo Mayawati is all set to share dais with SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav on April 19 and address a joint rally in Mainpuri, where Mulayam is contesting the Lok Sabha polls. The giant leap of faith after 25 years of hostility shows politics make strange bed fellows, despite Mayawati never losing an opportunity to remind its ally about the infamous guest house incident of 1995. Also on stage will be RLD president Ajit Singh.
"The candidates will obviously be present at the joint rallies held by the three alliance partners. So Netaji (Mulayam Singh Yadav), who is the SP candidate from Mainpuri, will be present at the meeting on April 19," said SP national secretary Rajendra Chaudhary.
On April 25, Mayawati will go on to address another joint rally with SP in Kannauj, from where SP president Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple is the candidate. A joint rally will also be held in Firozabad, from where Akhilesh's estranged uncle Shivpal Yadav, who floated the Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party, will be contesting against Akhilesh's cousin, Akshay Yadav (Ramgopal Yadav's son).
SP chief spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary also confirmed another joint rally will be held Rampur on April 20 and another at Firozabad on the same day. The three alliance partners will be address 11 rallies together, starting from Deoband on April 7. As per schedule released on Friday, nine of 11 rallies are slated to be held in SP constituencies, but will include alliance candidates, party workers and people from adjoining constituencies where BSP has given tickets.
SP-BSP rally on CM’s home turf on May 13
The 1995 VVIP guest house incident in Lucknow marked the turnaround in SP-BSP equations, so much so that when the 2019 alliance was announced earlier this year, Mayawati twice mentioned the episode. In 1995, after Mayawati withdrew support from the SP-BSP coalition, she was attacked in the guest house by SP members. Holed up in a room with a mob outside, she was finally rescued by then BJP MLA Brahm Dutt Dwivedi. In 2018, when talks of the alliance were on, Mayawati defended Akhilesh against BJP’s barbs, saying he was not even in politics when she was attacked.
The alliance partners will also target BJP strongholds in the course of their rallies. On May 13, a rally has been organised in Gorakhpur . The rallies will end on May 16 in Varanasi.
"The candidates will obviously be present at the joint rallies held by the three alliance partners. So Netaji (Mulayam Singh Yadav), who is the SP candidate from Mainpuri, will be present at the meeting on April 19," said SP national secretary Rajendra Chaudhary.
On April 25, Mayawati will go on to address another joint rally with SP in Kannauj, from where SP president Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple is the candidate. A joint rally will also be held in Firozabad, from where Akhilesh's estranged uncle Shivpal Yadav, who floated the Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party, will be contesting against Akhilesh's cousin, Akshay Yadav (Ramgopal Yadav's son).
SP chief spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary also confirmed another joint rally will be held Rampur on April 20 and another at Firozabad on the same day. The three alliance partners will be address 11 rallies together, starting from Deoband on April 7. As per schedule released on Friday, nine of 11 rallies are slated to be held in SP constituencies, but will include alliance candidates, party workers and people from adjoining constituencies where BSP has given tickets.
SP-BSP rally on CM’s home turf on May 13
The 1995 VVIP guest house incident in Lucknow marked the turnaround in SP-BSP equations, so much so that when the 2019 alliance was announced earlier this year, Mayawati twice mentioned the episode. In 1995, after Mayawati withdrew support from the SP-BSP coalition, she was attacked in the guest house by SP members. Holed up in a room with a mob outside, she was finally rescued by then BJP MLA Brahm Dutt Dwivedi. In 2018, when talks of the alliance were on, Mayawati defended Akhilesh against BJP’s barbs, saying he was not even in politics when she was attacked.
The alliance partners will also target BJP strongholds in the course of their rallies. On May 13, a rally has been organised in Gorakhpur . The rallies will end on May 16 in Varanasi.
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