NEW DELHI: Mayawati on Monday raised the pitch on quota battle by saying that only Yadav community was benefiting under the SP government in Uttar Pradesh.
The BSP supremo claimed credit for the passage of 'promotion quota' bill in Rajya Sabha but not without slamming the Samajwadi Party's claim that only one sub-caste of SCs was the beneficiary of reservations. The statement by SP leader in Rajya Sabha Ramgopal Yadav was seen to allude to the Jatav community to which Mayawati belongs.
Mayawati, stepping out of the Rajya Sabha after the vote on the contentious Constitution amendment bill, told reporters, "They should introspect as only Yadavs are benefitting though there are many communities in the backward list."
The personalized attack between SP and BSP, both identified as much with communities that their leaders belong to as with the umbrella groupings of OBCs and SCs, is aimed at denting the other's support base.
If the battle between the arch rivals develops on these lines in UP, Mayawati may think SP is vulnerable on the issue of being the representative of OBCs as a whole.
BSP has the support of 'backward among backwards' called MBCs and it may be looking to consolidate them by playing up the "Yadav domination" under SP.
Mayawati's assault reflects an assurance that rivals cannot wean away non-Jatav dalits from the umbrella entity of SCs by claiming that quotas were being cornered by one sub-group.
Mayawati claimed credit for the victory of 'promotion quota' in the upper House and hoped the bill would be passed in Lok Sabha too.
She said, "If we had not fought hard for it, then perhaps we could not have achieved what we got today. We are feeling good today and our supporters also must be feeling so. I want to thank both the government and the opposition on behalf of my party."
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