Mayawati claims BJP, SP hand-in-glove, Dayashankar will never be arrested

Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Sunday launched a two-pronged attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh.

Accusing the SP and BJP of joining hands against her, Mayawati said the saffron party had pressured Samajwadi Party (SP) not to arrest expelled BJP leader Dayashankar Singh.

The Dalit leader also told reporters on Sunday: "If the SP, under pressure from the BJP, does not arrest Dayashankar Singh for disrespecting the chief minister's aunt and start legal proceedings against him, then the BSP, when it comes to power, will order an unbiased probe into the matter."

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Speaking about BSP activists threatening and traumatizing Dayashankar Singh’s daughter, Mayawati said, “"The BJP would have been better off, if it had protested for the honour of a Dalit daughter along with Dayashankar Singh's daughter.”

"The BJP made Dayashankar Singh use foul language against me, and thought suspending him would win the hearts of Dalits, but this did not happen," Mayawati said.

She said the BJP, by not holding protests against Singh's remarks on her, had shown its "anti-Dalit" mentality. Mayawati accused the Modi-led BJP was suppressing the voice of Dalits.

BJP’s Uttar Pradesh vice-president Dayashankar Singh was sacked from all posts and then expelled from the party last week for calling Mayawati ‘worse than a prostitute’. Singh had claimed that Mayawati sold poll tickets to the highest bidder, and was thus worse than a prostitute.

The Uttar Pradesh elections are due for next year and BJP, BSP, SP and Congress have all begun preparations for it.