Rubishing BSP chief Mayawati’s claim on no more desertions, one of the founder members and veteran leader RK Chaudhary resigned after charging the brass of turning the outfit into a ' private real estate company'.
Earlier on June 22, senior leader and leader of the Opposition in Assembly Swami Prasad Maurya had put in his papers levelling similar charges.
“The BSP has lost its mission. Mafia, builders and real estate agents are controlling the party with Mayawati as their leader. She is just interested in minting money,” Chaudhary alleged while announcing his resignation in lucknow on Thursday afternoon.
A tall Pasi community leader and former UP Minister, Chaudhary asserted that the BSP chief was taking decisions as per her whims and fancies to attain her sole objective of amassing wealth.
“The graph of the BSP is dipping by the day due to the erratic attitude of Mayawati. Even BSP founder late Kanshi Ram had once opined that Mayawati was hungry of amassing wealth,” he stressed. Chaudhary blamed Mayawati for derailing the mission of alleviatiung the plight of Dalits in the scoiety as envisioned by Kanshiram.
“The ideology of Dr BR Ambedkar and Kanshi Ram have been pushed to the back seat. I was finding myself unfit in today's BSP and hence resigned. I will meet my supporters to decide on the future course of political action in lucknow on July 11,” informed the veteran leader.
The former aide of Kanshiram however denied that he was in talks with leaders of other parties, particularly the BJP. He also scotched reports about his link with rebel leader Swami Prasad Maurya, who is slated to hold a meeting with his supporters on Friday.
Meanwhile, reacting on the sudden move, senior BSP leader and former Rajya Sabha member Brajesh Pathak accused Chaudhary of not functioning properly and only interested in self promotion. “After losing the lok Sabha polls, he was demanding a ticket from Mohanlalganj for terh Assembly polls. He was in fact sacked from the party before he resigned. His departure will not affect the BSP in the Assembly polls as the Dalits are united under Mayawati,” Pathak claimed. Chaudhary was earlier sacked from the BSP but rejoined it on April 2, 2013 before the 2014 lok Sabha polls. He is presently the zonal co-ordinator of Allahabad and Mirzapur. He had unsuccessfully contested the lok Sabha polls from Mohanlalganj (lucknow) on a BSP ticket in 2014.