Patna: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati accused the UPA Govt at the Centre of contemplating to reopen corruption cases against her and trying to dump her in jail.
"The Congress-led Govt at the Centre is imitating its predecessor NDA regime which had falsely implicated me in the Taj Corridor case and got registered a disproportionate assets case against me. Despite my having got relief from the Income Tax authorities, the UPA Govt is contemplating reopening these cases and I am receiving threats of being dumped in jail," Mayawati said addressing a BSP rally which she declared as the launch of her party's campaign for Lok Sabha elections due next year.
The firebrand Dalit leader dared the UPA government to have her arrested, saying, ‘they are using the media to spread all sorts of disinformation to tarnish my image. If they succeed in their dirty design and I am arrested, BSP's political fortunes would soar and not plunge’.
Apprehending threat to her life from elements inimical to BSP due to its ‘growing popularity’, Mayawati said the Centre had not accepted her demand for Special Protection Group (SPG) cover.
"If I am killed, do not forgive the Congress-led dispensation in Delhi and take revenge. The loss must be avenged, principal and interest," she said.
Referring to attacks against North Indians, particularly those from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, in Mumbai by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) activists, Mayawati said, "the state's Congress-led government has not sternly dealt with the perpetrators."
"I have written to the Prime Minister seeking his intervention for protection of the lives and property of North Indians and stringent action against the perpetrators led by Raj Thackeray. The attacks are violative of the constitution which grants people the right to settle and earn livelihood anywhere in India. Maharashtra does not have a separate constitution like Jammu and Kashmir," she said.
In an apparent bid to replicate in Bihar the success of her Dalit-Upper Caste experiment in Uttar Pradesh in next Lok Sabha elections, Mayawati said BSP favoured job quota for the upper caste poor and she had written to the Centre several times seeking quota during her four stints as Chief Minister.
"Job reservation for Upper Caste requires constitutional amendment which is beyond our power at the moment but BSP will implement quotas for upper caste poor if voted to power at the Centre," she said.
"BSP is against no caste. We are committed to creation of an all-inclusive, egalitarian and non-discriminatory society. Had we been anti-upper castes, people like Satish Chandra Mishra would not have occupied the position he does," she said.
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