BSP chief Mayawati on Monday referred to the 1995 Lucknow ‘state guest house incident’ to attack the Samajwadi Party for the “deadly assault” on her, and the Congress for not coming to her aid despite being in power at the Centre at that time.
The fresh salvo comes three days after the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief expressed her gratitude to Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav for his stance on the “objectionable comments” made by a BJP MLA against her during a TV debate.
“The SP had carried out a deadly attack on me on June 2, 1995, after the BSP withdrew its support, then why does Congress never speak on this? The Congress government at the Centre during that time also did not fulfil its responsibility on time,” the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said in a post on X.
“Even when Kanshi Ram ji was in a serious condition and hospitalised, the home minister had to be reprimanded and the opposition also gheraoed the Parliament, only after that did the Congress government take action,” she said in Hindi.
“Because at that time the central Congress government’s intentions had also become bad, which after some untoward incident wanted to run its government from behind the scenes by imposing president’s rule in Uttar Pradesh, whose conspiracy was foiled by BSP,” Mayawati further claimed.