New Delhi, June 28: Chief Minister Mayawati on Saturday held a meeting with top BSP functionaries and asked them to launch a nationwide campaign to make people aware about the conspiracy allegedly hatched by the Opposition parties to stop her from becoming the Prime Minister. A booklet on how her rivals conspired to thwart her prime ministerial ambitions was also reportedly circulated at the meeting.
Later, party functionaries heading BSP’s state units met Mayawati separately and were briefed on how to expand the party base in their states. Party insiders said the chief minister wants her workers to participate in demonstrations and rallies to expose the Opposition parties who have allegedly joined hands to stop the BSP from capturing power at the Centre. “The party now prefers to follow political radicalism, instead of social radicalism. That’s why Mayawati asked us to organise public meetings, cadre camps, seminars and rallies to expose such forces that damage the party’s ‘sarvjan’ formula,” a source in the BSP said.
According to sources, Mayawati has asked Suresh Mane, who is in-charge of the BSP in southern states, to oversee party affairs in Maharashtra too. “Mane is a good organiser. She needs his services in Maharashtra in view the forthcoming Assembly elections there,” a party insider said. She also reviewed her party’s current status in Haryana, where the BSP has entered into an alliance with the Haryana Janhit Congress Party of former CM Bhajan Lal.
Sources said the CM also distributed a booklet titled “Dalit Kee Beti Pradhan Mantri Kyon Nahin Ban Saki” among her party functionaries at the meting.
The functionaries from different states also submitted a progress report about the party’s performance in their respective areas. “She has already given instructions to constitute new committees in all the states. She collected information about the steps we have taken after the Lok Sabha results,” a source said.
Mayawati has reportedly asked her party leaders to continue with BSP’s policy of “Sarvjan Hitay, Sarvjan Sukhay”. Sources said she has directed the BSP state unit chiefs to empower the district units to constitute “Bhaichara Committees” on the lines of UP unit. “She also made some queries about the progress made in this regard,” said a leader who attended the meeting.
–Agencies