The State Guest House attack again seems to have come to haunt Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati, who, on Monday, urged the Yogi Adityanath government to allot an alternative office for her party as she apprehended an untoward incident taking place in the present Mall Avenue office of the party in the state capital.
In a series of tweets on Monday, Mayawati claimed that she felt “unsafe” in the present office which had a flyover running almost parallel to it.
“Policemen are deployed whenever there is an event at the party office. As such I am forced to conduct the majority of the meetings at my residence,” she tweeted.
Without naming the Samajwadi Party, Mayawati accused the “conspirators” of making the bridge higher than the BSP office and termed such forces as “anti-Dalit”.
Mayawati said that she had already shifted the statues of Dalit icons to her residence so that they could not be vandalised by “such forces”.
The flyover adjacent to the BSP office was built during the regime of Akhilesh Yadav.
Mayawati also recalled that the same forces (read SP) were responsible for the infamous June 2 State Guest House incident of 1995 in which she and her supporters were attacked by Samajwadi Party men.
Meanwhile, Bharatiya Janata Party spokesman Rakesh Tripathi said that there was no threat to the security of Mayawati since the Yogi Adityanath government had ensured the safety of all.
“As far as shifting of the office is concerned, she can apply to the government and action will be taken according to rules,” he said.
It may be mentioned that both SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati have already locked horns over move of major parties of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) to include the BSP in the opposition alliance to take on the BJP in the coming parliamentary elections scheduled sometime around April this year.
Interestingly, Akhilesh on Sunday warned that his party would prefer to go it alone if the BSP joined the INDIA bloc while Mayawati advised the SP chief to first see his own past when his party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav had congratulated BJP for winning the parliamentary elections in 2019.
Mayawati had earlier announced that her party would go it alone in the Lok Sabha polls and would not join any major political party.
Some Congress leaders in UP, however, are advocating to include the BSP in the INDIA bloc instead of SP, which created a rift between the two major non-BJP parties that ruled UP.
