Mayawati is an Indian politician who served four separate terms as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. She was chief minister for a brief period in 1995 and again in 1997, then from 2002 to 2003 and from 2007 to 2012. Mayawati was born on January 15, 1956, at Shrimati Sucheta Kriplani Hospital, New Delhi into a Dalit family of Jatav caste. Her father Prabhu Das was a post office employee at Badalpur, Gautam Buddha Nagar. Mayawati did her B.A. in 1975 at the Kalindi College, University of Delhi and obtained her LL.B. from the prestigious Faculty of Law, the University of Delhi in 1983. She completed a B.Ed. from Meerut University's VMLG College, Ghaziabad in 1976. Mayawati was first elected to the Rajya Sabha in 1994. In 1995, she became head of her party and chief minister in a short-lived coalition government. She was the youngest chief minister in the history of the state until that point and the first female Dalit CM in India.
Millions of Dalits across India look up to her as an icon and fondly call her Behen-ji (sister). She belongs to the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which focuses on a platform of social change for Bahujans, more commonly known as Other Backward Castes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes as well as converted minorities from these castes.
Her official Twitter handle is @Mayawati.
The BSP has always been a riddle wrapped in an enigma for political analysts. It has survived amidst numerous predictions of terminal decline and bounced back with greater vigour in times of crisis.
Mayawati, the chief of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), has once again clarified that her party will contest the Lok Sabha elections independently.
The BSP has demanded Mayawati's nomination as the prime ministerial candidate in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, as a condition for the party to enter the INDIA opposition bloc.
MP Ritesh Pandey joined the BJP after resigning from the BSP's primary party membership earlier today.
Mayawati, the chief of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), has dismissed rumours of forming a coalition ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
In 2012, Mayawati indeed questioned the then Rajya Sabha Chairman’s absence in Parliamentary proceedings. But it had nothing to do with namaz.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati said party founder Kanshi Ram was a "messiah of the Dalits" and should be conferred the Bharat Ratna.
Analysing the fallout of the BSP supremo's decision not to join the INDIA bloc
The 1983-batch Indian Police Service officer mentions the incident in his memoir 'Crime, Grime & Gumption: Case files of an IPS officer'.
During the meeting, Mayawati asked BSP candidates selected for the Lok Sabha polls to uphold a clean and untarnished image. The senior politician also expressed confidence that the BSP would win 60 to 65 seats in Uttar Pradesh.
INDIA TODAY’s 2008 interview with Mayawati, who has declared that her Bahujan Samaj Party will go it alone in the Lok Sabha elections
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has said her party has decided to contest Lok Sabha elections on its own as past experience shows that it doesn't gain anything from entering into an alliance.
The Bahujan Samaj Party is gearing up for a generational shift, with chief Mayawati naming her nephew Akash Anand as heir
The timing of his anointment is significant: impending Lok Sabha polls and the BSP’s much-awaited decision on whether to join the INDIA bloc
BSP chief Mayawati named her nephew, Akash Anand, as her successor at the party meeting on Sunday afternoon. The announcement was made at the party meeting for the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Mayawati has named her nephew, Akash Anand, as her successor to lead the BSP. On social media, Akash Anand describes himself as a young supporter of BR Ambedkar's vision.
Lok Sabha MP Danish Ali was suspended by Mayawati-led BSP on Saturday for allegedly indulging in anti-party activities. He termed his suspension "unfortunate" and said he would continue to raise his voice against injustice and corruption.
Mayawati accused the Congress of “extreme false propaganda” against the BSP ahead of polling in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan.
Speaking at a rally in Madhya Pradesh, Mayawati also said the Congress was delayed bestowing the Bharat Ratna on Babasaheb Ambedkar.
Mayawati also urged party members to be alert to fake news, and said that anti-BSP elements are still engaged in propaganda and political conspiracy.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati said her party will take steps to make western Uttar Pradesh a separate state if voted to power at the Centre.
Now, with just months left for the big 2024 poll battle, BSP chief Mayawati has said that she will fight 2024 Lok Sabha elections all alone.
Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati has named nephew Akash Anand as her heir and future BSP leader.
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday said he saw a scope for the possibility of a Third Front and urged Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao, popularly known as KCR, to take the lead. "I definitely feel there's a scope for Third Front. Leaders like Mayawati and KCR are not there. Even those parties which have a reasonable presence are also not there in the NDA and INDI alliances. So, I hope KCR will take the lead and see the difference," Owaisi told India Today TV.
Speaking at a press conference on Sunday, the BSP chief said, “The Uniform Civil Code is already mentioned in the constitution. But the constitution does not support imposing it. The BJP should have considered all the dimensions related to UCC,” said the BSP chief.
Opposition is divided on the new parliament building's inauguration. BSP to attend the event while its president Mayawati called the opposition parties' boycott of the inauguration of the new Parliament building by Prime Minister Narendra Modi "unfair".
Chief of Bahujan Samaj Party slammed the Yogi-Adityanath led BJP government stating that under the saffron party's rule, Uttar Pradesh is slowly becoming an encounter state. The BSP supremo's statement comes after gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf while they were in the custody of the police and were on their way for a medical examination in Prayagraj. The BSP is a staunch rival of the BJP in Uttar Pradesh.
Giant leaders are giving a neck-to-neck competition to each other to win the chief minister post in Uttar Pradesh, but one major face is still missing in the race--BSP supremo Mayawati. She has been inactive throughout the high-octane poll campaigns in the state. She has remained dormant- both during poll campaigns and the social media blitz, following which the Opposition has raised questions about her absence.
Where would the BSP's core voters vote in the upcoming assembly election of Uttar Pradesh, and what would be its impact on the outcome of the election? The near absence of BSP supremo Mayawati from the electoral campaign has raised these interrelated questions.
BSP MP Satish Chandra Mishra said that former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati and he will not contest the upcoming Assembly elections.
