BSP chief Mayawati is trying to revive her political fortunes and project herself as the real benefactor of Dalits & backwards
Lucknow: Just when everyone was ready to write her off, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati is back. After lying low for some time, the 68-year-old former Uttar Pradesh chief minister is trying to revive her political fortunes and project herself as the real protector of the Dalit and backward communities.
Waking up to her party’s repeated electoral setbacks, she is trying to regain her core political base by taking up issues concerning backward communities, abandoning her reservations about contesting bypolls, revamping the party organisation, holding press conferences and becoming proactive on Twitter, now known as X.
The Dalit leader—who defied caste and gender to rise to become the head of India’s most populous state—Monday dismissed speculation about retiring from politics. She s...