LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party Leader Mayavatis war of words against the Mulayam Singh Yadav Government and his supporting parties the Congress and the Janata Dal continued fast week when she launched a diatribe against Mahatma Gandhi

Blaming the Mahatma for injecting discrimination in society and abusing the lower castes by introducing the word Harijan she equipped; He (Mahatma Gandhi) was the biggest enemy of the Dalits and the Bahujan Samaj at large. The word Harijan means off spring of god. who asked Why did not Mahatma Gandhi and other leaders such as Govind Ballabh Pant and Jawaharlal Nehru add the suffix Harijan along with their names? Does that go to prove that they were shaitan ki aulad (off Spring of Satan)?

Talking to newsmen at her State Guest House suite here she explicitly said I am making these statements for you to write and not to withdraw my words. Please write each and every word which I say she went on to renew the BSPs Struggle of wiping out Gandhivaad and introduce .

Ambedkarvaad. Making a direct attack on the Congress she said we have to a Certain extend achieved some success in crippling Gandhivaad by finishing the Congress. Referring 10 the Congress support to the SPBSP Government Ms.Mayavati Said that this was because of political compulsion they have not done us any favor

Training her guns on Mulayam Singh Yadav she said The BSP will extend support to Yadav for a complete term of five years. But if the Government falls before the term is over it will be entirely due to the weakness of Yadav

Asked what would the BSP do in case Yadav went back on his commitments Ms.Mayavati said I think Yadav will not do any such thing

But she did not hesitate to criticize him for neglecting BSP ministers and MLAs apart from officers belonging to the SC’s STs and the backward classes

\When the BSP has honored its commitment of making Mulayam Singh. Yadav the Chief Minister is it not his duty to safeguard and protect the interests of the BSP? She asked You see in New Delhi both Kanshi Ram and I are besieged with complaints from BSP MLAs and ministers. Instead of focusing our attention on expanding the BSP to other states we are being pulled back to Uttar Pradesh. Yadav should ensure that such complaints do not reach us she explained

Article extracted from this publication >> March 18, 1994