This story is from January 5, 2015

'Dalit ki beti Mayawati is now daulat ki beti,' BSP MP says

Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati was in for yet another embarrassment on Sunday when her sitting Rajya Sabha MP Jugal Kishore accused her of indulging in corruption and taking money for distributing tickets.
'Dalit ki beti Mayawati is now daulat ki beti,' BSP MP says
LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati was in for yet another embarrassment on Sunday when her sitting Rajya Sabha MP Jugal Kishore accused her of indulging in corruption and taking money for distributing tickets. The allegation came just before Mayawati was about to convene her monthly meeting of zonal coordinators in Lucknow to decide future strategy of the party in the wake of assembly polls due in 2017.
Kishore, considered a close aide of BSP founder Kanshiram, said Mayawati had moved away from the Bahujan movement and focuses largely on minting money. “From claiming to be a ‘dalit ki beti’, she has become ‘daulat ki beti’,'' he charged. Kishore said he has been receiving complaints from other MLAs too that Mayawati has been charging money for ticket distribution. “The party has drifted towards a money-making mission,’’ he said.
Last year he was removed from post of zonal coordinator following allegations of working independently away from the BSP top brass. Even the candidates he suggested were not given tickets to the Lok Sabha. On Sunday, he finally let loose his wrath and blamed squarely party president for poor show in Lok Sabha elections.
His allegations left the party ranks and file embarrassed. More so since Kishore still has about a year and four months more in her term as Rajya Sabha MP—his term expires in April 2016. A senior BSP functionary told TOI that Mayawati decided not to expel Kishore from the party fearing it could give him more freedom to level charges even more serious against the party high command.
“The party president, however, has asked party functionaries not keep not to stay in touch with Jugal Kishore anymore,” said a senior BSP leader on the condition of anonymity.
Jugal Kishore has been in news in the past for all the wrong reasons. In April, the Gonda police registered a complaint against him for passing derogatory comments against UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav. In 2012, name of Kishore’s son cropped up in the murder of a police sub-inspector in Lakhimpur Kheri.

Kishore's nasty allegation against Mayawati comes days after BSP former Rajya Sabha MP Akhilesh Das alleged the BSP chief demanded money from him for extending his term in the upper house. Das was categorical in saying that the BSP chief had a ‘charge’ fixed for both reserved and general seats—Rs 50 lakh for reserved and Rs 1 crore for general seats. The allegation was refuted by Mayawati who instead said she snubbed Das who offered Rs 100 crore to retain the seat. She had refused to make Das a RS candidate even if he offered Rs 200 crore.
Last month, former MP Dara Singh Chauhan was sacked from the party for indulging in anti-party activities, Chauhan was BSP's leader in the Lok Sabha until 2014 when he lost the election from Ghosi parliamentary seat. Another former BSP MP from Salempur, Rama Shankar Vidyarthi too was shunted out by Mayawati for carrying out anti-party activities. Both these MPs had been nestling ambitions of getting a Rajya Sabha ticket.
End of Article
FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA