BSP supremo keeping an eye on Swami Prasad Maurya's confidantes in Agra
BSP President Mayawati and her confidantes are now busy keeping an eye on Swami Prasad Maurya's long list of supporters in Agra, which is also known as the Dalit capital of UP.
The local political circle of Agra was in shock after the BSP President Mayawati expelled former cabinet minister Narayan Singh Suman and his son former MLC Veeru Suman from the party on the report of city's party coordinator. However, when the party's powerful leader and UP's leader of Opposition Swami Prasad Maurya quit the BSP claiming that Mayawati was demanding money for tickets, it caused a major storm in the politics of the state.
Although Mayawati has already given her explanation on this matter in the media, but her confidantes are now busy keeping an eye on Swami Prasad Maurya's long list of supporters in Agra, which is also known as the Dalit capital of UP. BSP has six MLAs out of the nine seats from Agra in the current assembly, out of which, five are known to have close ties with Maurya and reportedly, Maurya has already started contacting them to plan a strategy for the coming elections.
A local senior BSP leader who was earlier a part of a right-wing organisation before joining the BSP, said that such allegations of demands of money for ticket from panchayat elections to parliamentary elections are not new for the BSP supremo and weren't considered very trustworthy, but when a senior leader like Swami Prasad Maurya makes the same allegation, it becomes a totally different story and party workers have begun to doubt if there is a hint of truth in such allegations.
NO SUPPORT FROM DALITS FOR MAYAWATI
Samajwadi Party city President Raisuddin said that if Mayawati is thinking that she would become the Chief Minister of UP in 2017, then she is mistaken. She can never become UP's CM again as she has lost the support of her traditional vote bank of Dalits. The Dalits of UP have realised that Mayawati was just fleecing them for votes and money and that she never thought about their welfare. Swami Prasad Maurya was among the closest aides of Mayawati and when he himself is charging Mayawati of demanding money, then there remains no doubt that she sells tickets for her personal gain and treats the BSP as her personal fiefdom, with no internal democracy in the party.
Asked if he was being contacted by BSP leaders interested in joining SP, he said that a lot of such leaders have contacted him and are eager to switch sides, but this entire matter has now been taken over by the party high command and only Lucknow will decide whether Swami Prasad Maurya and his supporters join the Samajwadi Party or not.