Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati announced the name of three candidates for the Council beinnial polls here on Sunday.
The Party has announced the names of leader of the Opposition in the Council and BSP general secretary Nasimuddin Siddique, Dharamveer Singh Ashok and Pradeep. Seven BSP members are retiring on January 30 but now 2 can win the biennial polls as per their strength in the Assembly while some more votes would be required for the win of the third candidate. BSP has 80 members in the Assembly and 36 votes is required for clear cut win of a candidate.
Nominations for beinnial polls for 12 council seats would commence on January 6. Meanwhile BSP’s former zonal coordinator Jugal Kishore, accused party supremo Mayawati of selling party tickets for Assembly and Parliamentary seats in return for money. “I was sidelined only when I objected this practice to the BSP supremo and urged her to put a full stop on it,” Kishore asserted before Media while targeting BSP chief. Kishore, who was removed from the top party post of zonal coordinator on Saturday, demanded a CBI inquiry into his allegations and said many of the legislatures would
expose the seat-trading if a fair probe was conducted.
“Even I was asked to pay Rs 50 lakh for the party ticket for my son Saurabh Singh from Kasta Assembly seat. “I raised a voice and was silenced immediately by being sidelined in the Party, which I founded in 1984 along with Dalit messiah late Kanshi Ram,” he alleged. Terming BSP supremo
Mayawati as the wealthiest leader in the country, Kishore alleged that for the past few months the Dalit mission has been put on the back
burner and the focus was on “money mission”.
He alleged there are large-scale irregularities in setting up of Bahujan Prerna Kendras in lucknow, Noida and Delhi. Kishore claimed that these ‘kendras’ were set up with the hard-earned money of poor Dalits but they were converted into trusts in which trustees were none other than Mayawati, her brother Anand and Satish Chandra Mishra. “If the Dalits come to know of the reality behind the Prerna Kendra, they would retaliate,” he added. The BSP has yet to speak on the above charges.