Son-in-law behind Maurya's revolt against Maya, exit?

Lucknow: Rebel BSP leader Swami Prasad Maurya may be planning his exit for quite some time, but his departure on July 22 was not pre-meditated. Sources say that it was triggered by severe reprimand that he received from the party chief Mayawati when he asked for an assembly election ticket for his son-in-law. This was apart from his demand that his son and daughter too should be fielded in 2017 elections.
If sources close to him are to be believed, Maurya was under tremendous pressure from his son-in-law Nawal Kishore who was demanding a ticket for from Patiyali seat in Kasganj. Mayawati had already told Maurya that she would give ticket only to him and none of his family members. She also rejected his demand to keep him in Padrauna, from where Maurya had won last time, and not to shift him to Unchahar.
Maurya was initially wary of going to the party chief with this fresh demand, but the pressure mounted by his son-in-law forced him to go to Mayawati again on June 22 morning. In this one-on-one meeting, say sources, Mayawati lost her cool and warned him that that the party will not field any of his family members. She also said a categorical no to his demand for changing his seat from Unchahar to Padrauna. Maurya obviously had not expected this terse response from the party chief to a senior functionary like him and and sulk gave way to rebellion and finally his volatile exit.
Maurya was feeling sidelined by the leadership for quite some time. The Padrauna seat which he had won was changed and a powerful Muslim leader blocked his access to Behenji, says a BSP source. "Out of desperation, he had started looking for avenues outside and the party leadership was aware of it. But, nobody had expected that he would go on the path of rebellion so soon," he adds "after all Behenji had kept him on high pedestal despite adverse reports about him. He was made a minister despite losing in 2007 and was also given the coveted chair of the leader of opposition."
A party leader claims that so much pampered was he in BSP's previous tenure between 2007 and 2012 that Mayawti appointed 31 chairmen of district cooperative banks and 22 chiefs of state corporations and boards on his recommendations. "Having done so much, Mayawati had not expected that he would go to this extent," says a senior functionary who was present during Mayawati-Maurya meeting at her Mall Avenue residence on June 22, "but overt concern to build political career of his son, daughter and son-in-law has put him in a situation where he is trying desperately for his own rehabilitation."