BSP supremo Mayawati on Monday hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for calling her BSP as ‘Behenji Sampatti Party’. She retorted with a clever pun on his name as “Mr Negative Dalit Man”. “Narendra Damodardas Modi means Mr Negative Dalit Man, he is anti-Dalit... This negative Dalit man does not like that common people give small contributions in running the movement which is also run through donations,” Mayawati said.
“Perturbed at the rising popularity of the BSP, the Prime Minister is indulging in cheap things and indulging in petty talk about its supreme leader and has termed BSP as ‘Behenji Sampatti Party’,” she said at an election rally in Sultanpur. Mayawati is popularly known as ‘Behenji’.
“He (Modi) is an expert in jumlebaazi (rhetoric) but when he will get a tit-for-tat reply he will forget all about it and today I have been compelled to do the same for him,” she said.
The BSP chief said, “He (Modi) does not know that the BSP is a movement first and then a political party....I have dedicated my entire life for making members of Dalit, deprived and weaker sections and Muslims stand on their feet.”
launching a personal attack on the PM, Mayawati said, “Unlike him I have not got married... He had got married and later left his wife, which is another thing... And I have only worked for the deprived sections of society… It is because of this dedication that people among the weaker sections do not consider me only as a leader but a big ‘sampatti’ (asset) for the movement.”
“He is giving a wrong definition of the BSP...He does not know that deprived and weaker sections consider me as a big wealth of bahujan samaj who has given up her entire life for their progress,” she said.
“This Dalit ke beti does not lack in anything and if he defined the BSP wrongfully, she is two steps ahead of him,” she said.
Explaining the money deposited in her party’s bank account, the BSP chief said, “Three months ago, a membership drive was run in the country when there was no ban on Rs500 and Rs1,000 notes. Party men converted small donations into big notes for bringing it to Delhi for depositing in banks. It was that money which was deposited in the bank.”
“BJP did not know that Rs100 crore collected from all over the country was deposited and suddenly their eyes popped out and they asked from where it has come. Had it been black money, why would it have been deposited in banksIJ” she asked.
“They (BJP) do not like that the BSP is fighting the elections with the help of small donations. They do not like that Dalit ke beti campaigns in helicopter. Their intention was to make BSP turn bankrupt,” Mayawati said.
“You consider me as your leader, devi, bhagwan, asset... there is no difference between devi and asset,” she said. “In Orai, what the Prime Minister said was very sad.
She said that the polling of three phases have made Modi so nervous that he was making all sorts of allegations against the political opponents.