Mayawati was accompanied by her Man Friday Satish Chandra Mishra, national general secretary of the BSP.
Mishra is credited to have the unique social engineering of Brahmin and Dalits that got Mayawati THE absolute majority in Uttar Pradesh elections held six months ago.
"It is wrong to say BSP is an anti-Brahmin party. If that was the case, I, a Brahmin, would not have been the general secretary of this party. Initially, many Brahmins had this apprehension about behenji (Mayawati’s popular name,) but later on we all found the fear was unfounded," added Mishra.
Speaking about himself, Mishra said, "No one in my family ever was remotely connected to politics. It was me who took the plunge by leaving my lucrative job. I did so because I believed in behenji and her politics."
Speaking on the reservation issue, Mayawati said, "I have written many letters to the United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre and have also told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to do something about reservations in private sector jobs, but nothing has happened so far. All parties have rejected the idea of reservation in the private sector except the BSP."
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