Meira made Speaker to keep her away from her people: BSP

The booklet accuses the BJP and Congress of appointing Dalits to high offices,like those of the President,Vice-President,Speaker,Deputy Speaker and Governor,only to alienate the people of the Dalit community from the BSP. “Meira Kumar has been made Speaker of the Lok Sabha in order to keep her away from her own people. In our country,the posts of President,Vice-President,Governor and Speaker are such that the people of the Dalit community occupying them can do no good to the people of their own community,” says the booklet.

It adds the parties like the BJP and the Congress may make a Dalit PM for some time,“but this is not going to lead to upliftment and progress of Dalits because the real objective of these parties behind such a move will be to alienate the BSP’s base”.

Describing the Dalit leaders who are given influential positions as “mostly the selfish kind,who have nothing to do with the welfare of their own community”,the booklet says such leaders behave like “bonded labour” of these parties.

Alleging the Congress has never allowed Dalits and tribals to remain in positions of influence for long,the booklet says Sushil Kumar Shinde was removed as Maharashtra Chief Minister after the Assembly elections and made Governor of Andhra Pradesh. “When the BSP raised its voice,the Congress made him a minister at the Centre,” it adds.

The party may have done badly in the Lok Sabha elections,but the booklet speaks of the “charisma of Behan Kumari Mayawatiji” which created an environment in May 2009 for the BSP “getting very close to power in the Centre”.

The booklet alleges the Congress,BJP and their allies joined hands to prevent the “Dalit ki Beti” from becoming Prime Minister,first at the time of the no-confidence vote in the Lok Sabha,and later in the Lok Sabha elections by exploiting caste and religion. “As a result,the BSP narrowly missed political power at the Centre,” it says.