Accuses BJP of playing hate politics
TIA NEWS /
The Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati today accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi led NDA government of being anti Dalits. anti poor and anti minorities. She said that BJP leaders were playing hate politics in the country.
Questioning Modi’s dalit outreach through express of grief at the suicide of Hyderabad University dalit scholar Rohith Vemula and waxing eloquent on dalit pantheon Bhimrao Ambedkar, Mayawati asserted the talks of allowing dalit students to study in AMU and JMI were only political tactics.
Mayawati said a large number of people belonging to the deprived and oppressed sections amongst the Hindus had converted to Buddhism, Islam and Sikhism.
“The majority amongst the minorities in India were originally lower caste Hindus, who had converted to other religions due to discrimination and oppression. Therefore, we consider them as our brethren,” she underlined.
Addressing a press conference at her party headquarters in Lucknow, She said that ModI government was doing nothing but implementing RSS agenda to divide the country on Caste and communal basis. She said that senior ministers and MPs of the NDA are giving such statements which are extremely inappropriate in view of the interest of the nation.
Ms. Mayawati said that by depriving the minority status to the Aligarh Muslim University and Jamia Millia Islamia, the NDA government headed by PM Modi is trying to deprive the Muslims and other minorities from higher education.
Refusing to accept the BJP’s reasoning to do so for the sake of providing better opportunity for higher education to SC and ST candidates in these institutions, she said that it is a trick to snatch away these from Muslims who have only few institutions of repute in the country. She also supported the demand for reservation to converted Muslims, Budhists, Sikhs saying most of their ancestors converted their religion due to atrocities on them.
She warned that even if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led central government bestowed Bharat Ratna to BSP founder Kanshi Ram or elevated dalit as top party leaders or nominated them as chief minister candidate, the dalits should be wary of such move.
Observing that Congress was on oxygen, she lambasted its vice president Rahul Gandhi for his “theatrics” of staying at dalits’ households and breaking bread with them. “All this is pure drama arranged by the Congress party itself.”
She noted SP had become an alter ego of BJP and RSS. “The ruling SP knows that it would not return to power in Uttar Pradesh next year. Therefore, its cadres are amassing wealth, while the law and order situation is worsening every day.”
Mayawati announced if BSP came to power in 2017 UP polls, it would put anti-social, mafia and communal elements behind the bars.
She also accused ruling Samajwadi Party to be hand in glove with BJP for political gains alleging that both have started gradually to arouse communal passions ahead of Vidhan Sabha elections next year. She supported the demand of women who want to pray in the temple of Shani in Maharashtra, saying its a RSS mentality to abstain women from participating in religious activities.