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Mayavati to form new political front in AP
Updated: 01-02-2008
HYDERABAD: Bahujan Samaj Party president and Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister, Mayawati, is planning to set up a political coalition of
Dalits, backward classes, upper castes and minorities in the state.
She wants to build up this coalition as an alternative to the
Congress, Telugu Desam and Telangana Rashtra Samiti.
The BSP supremo has contacted certain backward class, upper
caste, Dalit and minority leaders of the state and will be holding
talks with them when she lands here on January 5, a day before the
Bahujan Maha Sammelan public meeting in the city.
She will be exploring the possibility of forming a common
political platform to bring them all together. "We want to create an
egalitarian society which will serve the interests of both upper
castes and Dalits," said BSP state president, Mr N. Surya Prakash Rao.
BSP sources claimed that several prominent personalities
including MP, A. Narendra, actress and Talli Telangana president,
Vijayashanti, former advocate general, S. Ramchandra Rao and TRS rebel
MLAs were likely to join the BSP in the presence of Mayawati on
January 6.
Ramachandra Rao, however, said he had not made up his mind
yet and would do so only after meeting Mayawati. Vijayashanti firmly
ruled out joining the BSP. At the same time, Narendra's aides said he
would take a final decision on the issue after a meeting with party
workers on Wednesday.
Mayawati would also announce her support for separate
Telangana in the public meet to woo outfits other than the TRS
fighting for the cause. "We will popularise the slogan that Mayawati
alone can make Telangana a reality," said Surya Prakasa Rao.
