Calls Maywati a Prostitute. Case filled

A police case  was also filed against  Singh members of Mayawati’s party. The BJP removed  Singh as a vice president in Uttar Pradesh soon after Finance Minister Arun Jaitley expressed ‘personal regret’ in Parliament, telling Mayawati: “It is not right and I condemn the use of this word and if a person has said this, we will investigate. I express personal regret. I associate with your dignity and stand with you.”

Caught in a strom of criticism for his comments about Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati on, Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) leader Dayashankar Singh was removed from his post of the party’s Vice President in Uttar Pradesh. Singh had, in a video, compared the Dalit leader to a prostitute, triggering outrage, and prompting senior party leader Arun Jaitley to personally apologise to the former UP Chief Minister in Parliament.

Singh’s comment is being seen as a new low, even for Indian poll politics. The BJP leader said Mayawati was allegedly “selling tickets to the highest bidder”.”Even a prostitute fulfils her contract. But Mayawati sells party tickets to the highest bidder. She’ll sell it for a crore. But when someone offers her two crores, she’ll sell it to the person. In the evening if someone offers her three crores, she’ll sell a party ticket to him,” Singh said.”She’s worse than a prostitute,” he told reporters.

People are tired of the BSP, Singh claimed, and are looking at BJP as an alternative in the state that goes to polls in 2017. In Parliament, a Jaitley expressed “personal regret” and said “it is not right and I condemn the use of this word and if a person has said this, we will investigate.”

“I express personal regret. I associate with your dignity and stand with you,” Jaitley told Mayawati in Rajya Sabha. Faced with an avalanche of condemnation, Singh quickly backtracked saying “I can’t even think of Mayawatiji that way. She has come up after a lot of struggle.”

Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad, DMK’s Kanimozhi, Congress’ Kumari Selja and Renuka Chowdhury, TK Rangarajan of CPI(M) and Satish Chandra Mishra of BSP protested against Singh’s comment.

A visibly agitated Mayawati, who was present in the House, thanked Jaitley and all other members for their condemnation of Singh’s remarks but demanded that BJP leaders including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah discuss the matter, expel Singh from the party and take action against him.

She said mere expression of regret will not suffice and added, “His remarks apply for his sister and daughter and not for me. The whole country will not forgive BJP. People will come on the streets.”

Mayawati said the remarks by the BJP leader reflected the “capitalistic mindset” and asserted that never in her political career had she used any derogatory or personal remarks against her adversaries or questioned their character though there could be idealogical differences.