Bahujan Samaj Party president and former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati, on Saturday demanded strict action against Suraj Pal Singh, who is worshipped by his followers as 'Bhole Baba', in the Hathras stampede tragedy that claimed 121 lives. The BSP chief also advised the poor, Dalits and the oppressed in the country not to get misled by superstition and hypocrisy of “babas”.
“The poor, Dalits and the oppressed in the country should not increase their pain and suffer by getting misled by the superstition and hypocrisy of many babas like Bhole Baba of Hathras to get rid of their poverty and all other problems, this is the advice,” she posted on ‘X’.
“Rather, by following the path shown by Baba Saheb Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, they will have to change their own destiny by taking power into their own hands, that is, they will have to join their own party BSP, only then they can avoid incidents like Hathras in which 121 people died, which is very worrying,” Mayawati added.