New Delhi, April 4:After Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati demanded resignation of National Commission for Scheduled Castes chairman Buta Singh for his “silence” over BKU leader Mahendra Singh Tikait’s alleged casteist remark, Singh on Friday accused the BSP chief of denying the panel relevant documents needed to take action.

Early this week Mayawati had sought the resignation of Buta Singh saying “his silence in this case (Tikait’s casteist remark) indicates that either he had lost his voice or the Congress Party had gagged him”.

Responding to Mayawati’s charges, Singh asserted that the Commission would summon the farmer leader as soon as possible and question him about his reported casteist remark.

However, Singh said he had asked the Bijnore District Magistrate for a text of the speech on the day of the incident, but the district administration has so far not supplied him the required text.

“I tried to contact Mayawati thrice. However, each time the personal staff of the Chief Minister expressed ignorance and lack of understanding of the name and status of Buta Singh,” said the Commission chairman. Expressing his anguish over the alleged ignorance, Singh claimed that Mayawati had always tried to “belittle” him and had behaved like this earlier too. Singh, however, said the Commission has taken full cognizance of the issue, and would summon

Tikait as soon as it got the relevant documents. “The Commission supports the UP Chief Minister in this matter,” he said.

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