Time for social brotherhood - Mayavati

After her landslide victory in the Uttar Pradesh polls early this year, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Sunday whipped up support for her party in West Bengal.


She called for the setting up of an egalitarian society by fostering brotherhood among all castes. The BSP leader said while there was need to uplift the Dalits, the backward classes and the religious minorities, one could not usher in progress if one snaps all links with the upper classes.

“We have to direct our efforts to improving the condition of the oppressed among the backward classes and minorities. But in the process, we should also work for the betterment of the economically weaker sections among the upper classes,” Mayawati said at a rally in the city. The efforts have to come from the state Government which must introduce the necessary amendments in the existing laws.

Accusing the Congress and the BJP of launching a propaganda that the BSP was against the upper castes, she said: “If that is so, then why did the Congress ally with us in 1996? The BJP was also associated with us for some time.”

Advocating reservations in the private sector, she accused the governments at the Centre — the UPA and the previous NDA Government — and the Left Front Government in West Bengal of gradually doing away with reservation. “They are privatising the PSUs on the pretext that they are loss-making units,” she said. Mayawati, however, clarified that her party was not against privatisation but said some jobs should be reserved for the oppressed classes .

Courtesy:expressindia.com
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