In Uttar Pradesh ruling Bahujan Samaj Party president and state Chief Minister Mayawati today announced to lodge nationwide protest against the Women Reservation Bill on 14th of next month.<br/> Addressing a massive rally at Lucknow organised to celebrate silver jubilee celebrations of the party she said that the provisions in proposed bill are not beneficial to the women of minority, Dalit and Other Backward Classes.<br/> Ms Mayawati came down heavily on the Congress for inflation spiral and said that her party would launch an aggressive country-wide agitation, if the prices were not controlled in the near future. She hit back at opposition parties specially Congress criticising her for installing her own statues and said law does not prevent anyone from erecting statues of living persons. Ms Mayawati blamed the opposition parties for trying to misguide the public by raising false charges of unnecessary expenditure on memorials and parks set up by her government in the names of Dalit icons.<br/> Referring recent notice issued by the Election Commission to her party on statues of Elephant at parks and memorials set up by her government she said that there was a big conspiracy to seize her party symbol of elephant. Ms Mayawati made it clear that the statues of elephants were installed at various memorials and parks had posed different from as depicted in the party symbol.<br/> AIR Lucknow correspondent reports that in her one hour 30 minutes long speech she targeted the Congress. She said that Congress always conspired to destroy the BSP, which had already made its presence felt in the political arena in the country. She said that the Congress at the Centre may give step-motherly treatment to the state may strive to finish the BSP movement. The BSP supremo chose the occasion to announce setting up an All India Legal Cell of BSP to be headed by party general secretary Satish Chandra Mishra.
News On AIR | March 15, 2010 7:48 PM
Mayawati to lodge nationwide protest against Women Reservation Bill