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Muslims in Mayawati's list for Uttar Pradesh elections
Sunday January 15, 2012 09:33:46 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow:
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister
Mayawati Sunday released the names of all 403 candidates for the
February 8-March 4 assembly elections, with the list comprising
more upper castes, backward classes and minority nominees than
Dalits.
She also announced her party would contest the polls in
Uttarakhand and Punjab too.
The list, whose break-up Mayawati herself gave at her 56th
birthday celebration at the state party headquarters here,
indicated that she was out to once again try out her social
engineering that had propelled her to power in 2007, bagging 213
seats in the 403-member state assembly.
Claiming that unlike her political rivals, she meant business by
declaring her party's entire list at one go, she appealed to party
workers to ensure the return of BSP to power as their "birthday
gift" to her.
"My list of candidates has 117 upper castes with as many as 74
Brahmins. Besides there are 113 other backward classes (OBCs), 88
Scheduled Castes and 85 Muslims," Mayawati declared, seeking to
highlight how she had taken care to give due representation to all
castes.
She claimed that during her selection of candidates, she laid much
emphasis on factors like "clean image and their commitment to the
BSP mission as well as their devotion to their respective areas of
operation".
Regretting the selection of certain candidates at the last
election, she observed, "some undesirable persons from other
parties managed to sneak into our party and mislead us into
getting ticket at the last election".
"But eventually they got exposed when we saw how after winning
elections, they got involved solely in seeking personal
aggrandizement while putting the party and my government to
disrepute."
"It was important to weed them out, so they were denied a BSP
ticket this time - and that includes not only MLAs but also some
ministers whom I also removed from the cabinet."
She emphasised tickets have now been awarded only to "committed
people who will give priority to development of their
constituencies and work towards the larger interests of the people
living there."
She declared that her party was going to contest all seats in
Uttarakhand and Punjab too.
Mayawati also released the seventh volume of her serialised
autobiography titled "A Travelogue of My Struggle-Ridden Life and
BSP Movement" together with her party's election manifesto and a
CD of songs appealing to the people to vote for her party.
"The book contains an account of contemporary history and
challenges faced by the party and measures taken by me over the
past one year for the larger good of the state and its people,"
she added.
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