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Lucknownama Express News Service Posted online: Monday , Apr 12, 2010 at 0210 hrs Lucknow : Coming soon: Mayayug Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has turned editor. In fact, she is the chief editor, printer, publisher and owner of Mayayug — the official mouthpiece of the party. Dummy copies of the magazine recently reached select partymen. As could be expected, it is Mayawati all over, with very little other reading material. Even the editorial is on Mayawati — Sarva samaj kee asha kee ekmatra kiran (The only ray of hope for Sarva Samaj). It’s going to be a quarterly publication, though initially it was planned as a monthly magazine, said a BSP leader. It will come out soon after legal formalities — like getting a registration number — are completed. No more Ansari blues Bahujan Samaj Party MLA from Dildar Nagar, P N Rai, is a relieved man after the government sent don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari from Ghazipur to Mathura jail. Rai’s constituency Dildar Nagar has ceased to exist after delimitation, and he had been eyeing Mohammadabad, which Mukhtar’s brother and SP legislator Sibgatullah Ansari currently represents in the Assembly. Rai had even told Chief Minister Mayawati that he would like to contest from Mohammadabad in 2012. Mayawati had reportedly assured him, but Rai still had doubts in view of the clout of the Ansari brothers. In the Lok Sabha elections last year, the BSP had fielded Mukhtar from Varanasi and his brother Afzal from Ghazipur. In spite of being an SP legislator, Sibgatullah had campaigned for Mukhtar. The talk in the political circles was that, as part of the one-in-three deal, Sibgatullah had been assured of BSP nomination from Mohammadabad in 2012. The shifting of Mukhtar to Mathura jail shows that Mayawati no longer needs him. Rai can now relax. Where is the money? The Samajwadi Party has announced a series of programmes for the next three months to strengthen the organisation and woo the most backward among the OBCs. It begins with party conventions in every Assembly constituency from April 15, followed by a OBC convention in Kanpur on April 19, and then similar meetings at divisional level across the state. The SP leaders from districts are asking for financial assistance from the party headquarters for organising these programmes. They say they had mobilised resources at the local level for the fortnight-long cycle yatras in March, but can’t do it again. The SP headquarters is asking them to take the help of MLAs and MPs. But how much money can the MPs and MLAs of an Opposition party raise? All for media space The Rashtriya Lok Dal has decided to take out torchlight processions at district headquarters on April 13 to protest against inflation and corruption prevailing in welfare schemes of Centre and the Uttar Pradesh government. The party chose April 13 because it’s the eve of B R Ambedkar’s birth anniversary. But why not Ambedkar’s anniversary? Well, that day, the Congress will launch its statewide yatras in Ambedkarnagar, while the BSP will hold a big rally in the town around the same time against the Women’s Reservation Bill. Between these two, any programme organised by a small party like RLD that day will get squeezed out for media space. So, the best slot was the eve of Ambedkar’s birth anniversary, reasoned party general secretary Munna Singh Chauhan. An unhappy lot The government decision to transfer 1989-batch IAS officer Sanjay Bhoosreddy from Lucknow to Allahabad has not gone down well with IAS officers. Bhoosreddy is honorary secretary of the Uttar Pradesh IAS Association and there has been a tradition that the government generally does not transfer the association president and secretary out of Lucknow. Once even a government order was issued against shifting these office-bearers outside the state capital, claimed an officer. The IAS officers see in Bhoosreddy’s transfer an attempt to weaken the association which, in any case, is not very active. About a year ago, the government had transferred Chandra Prakash — secretary of the IPS Association — to Allahabad. The IPS Association had then appointed another officer, Renuka Mishra, in his place. ------------------------------------ ---- INFORMATION OVERLOAD? Get all ZESTCaste mails sent out in a span of 24 hours in a single mail. Subscribe to the daily digest version by sending a blank mail to [email protected], OR, if you have a Yahoo! Id, change your settings at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/join/ PARTICIPATE:- On this list you can share caste news, discuss caste issues and network with like-minded anti-caste people from across India and the world. 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