In what is being touted as an appeasement of Brahmins ahead of the state elections, Mayawati’s BSP will fight a legal battle for the bail of Khushi Dubey, a 17-year-old widow of slain gangster Vikas Dubey.
BSP’s Brahmin face and senior advocate Satish Mishra will demand the release of Khushi, who has been lodged in a juvenile center in Barabanki for a year.
The story of happiness makes a perfect case of injustice.
She was married to Abhay Dubey (Vikas’s cousin) just three days before the infamous Bikru massacre on July 2, 2020, when nine policemen were killed. 11 days later, on July 13, Abhay was killed in a police encounter as he was absconding.
Amidst the commotion, Khushi was only with her husband for two days.
The girl who entered Dubey’s house was accused of being a gang member and was arrested soon thereafter but no chargesheet has been filed against her so far. She later proved to be a minor and was then sent from Kanpur Jail to Barabanki Women’s Shelter Home.
During this, he was accused of using SIM under another name. However, it was found in the name of his mother. Khushi is now ill and was recently brought to a hospital in Lucknow for treatment.
The matter of happiness has the potential to fuel a sense of injustice towards Brahmins and has given new hope to the BSP ahead of the 2022 UP elections.
The party is making efforts to woo the community as it did in 2007 when the party won 206 out of 403 assembly seats and secured 30% of the votes. Its performance was not a coincidence, but the result of a well thought out strategy of BSP chief Mayawati. The candidates were also announced long ago, while the party faced an amicable cocktail of OBCs, Dalits, Bahmins and Muslims.
The Bahujan Samaj Party will also hold a ‘Brahmin Sammelan’ in Ayodhya from July 23 to woo the upper caste community. The first phase of the convention will be held between July 23-29 in six districts of UP, similar to a campaign organized by the BSP in 2007 and tickets were given to a sufficient number of Brahmins.
However, this move has not gone down well with everyone. Suspended BSP MLA Aslam Raini termed the Bahujan Samaj Party a “sinking ship” and claimed that the party’s love for Brahmins was only an “election stunt”.
“People from backward classes, upper castes and minorities are no longer with the BSP. There was a time when prominent Brahmin leaders like Brajesh Pathak were in the party. Today Brahmins will not board the sinking ship of BSP in the name of Satish Chandra Mishra.
Raini claimed that he had spoken to Brahmins in Lakhimpur Kheri, Sitapur, Gorakhpur, Balrampur, Bahraich, Gonda and Shravasti and was told that the Brahmin community would vote for the Samajwadi Party. Apart from this, people from the minority community will also vote for the SP and Akhilesh Yadav will become the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, he said.
In October 2020, seven BSP MLAs, including Raini, were suspended by party president Mayawati. He had opposed the nomination of the party’s official candidate Ramji Gautam for the election to the Rajya Sabha. Some suspended BSP MLAs, including Raini, met Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow on June 15. Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Mayawati had claimed that people from “upper castes” were remorseful for voting for the BJP in the last state elections and said their interests would be protected if her party came to power. .
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