Maya move to nip dissent in the bud

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Maya move to nip dissent in the bud

Sunday, 17 February 2019 | PNS | Lucknow

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati again tried to silence the intra-party dissent by expelling a senior leader from eastern UP after by accusing him of being involved in anti-party activities. “Senior BSP leader Niyaz Ahmed was expelled from the party by BSP chief Mayawati for his involvement in anti-party activities,” confirmed a senior BSP leader in Lucknow on Saturday morning.

The action was taken after Ahmed’s supporters took to the streets to protest against the BSP brass accusing it of ignoring senior leaders and instead giving ticket for Parliament elections to others.

Sources said that after the BSP chief made Vinod Jaiswal as incharge of Deoria, former candidate Niaz Khan and his supporters came to the streets and staged a protest on Tuesday. They also boycotted party meeting scheduled the same day. However, the same evening, Khan claimed that he did not attend the meeting as he was not invited. Later, he also pacified his supporters.

However, taking affront to his conduct, the BSP chief booted Khan out of the party, and gave out the signal to her dissenters that misconduct would not be tolerated.

Earlier on February 7, Mayawati had removed a founder member of BSP and ex-MP from Ghosi Balkrishna Chauhan for being involved in anti-party activities.  A teacher by profession, Chauhan joined the Dalit movement in 1984 and later contested Lok Sabha polls from Ghosi on a BSP ticket in 1999.

Resentment has been brewing among BSP cadres and leaders after the party stitched a pre-poll alliance with the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh to better its performance in the Lok Sabha polls. But this also meant that the BSP was to contest only half of the 80 seats in the state. The hopes of BSP aspirants for the rest of the seats which went the SP’s way was hence dashed.

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