Date:03/12/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/12/03/stories/2008120353950500.htm

Andhra Pradesh - Visakhapatnam

‘Mayawati daydreaming to become PM’

Staff Reporter

VISAKHAPATNAM: Bahujan Samaj Party (Ambedkar-Phule) State president Nalla Surya Prakash on Tuesday accused BSP president and UP Chief Minister Mayawati of daydreaming to become the Prime Minister.

Stating that he was thrown out of the party by Ms. Mayawati for inviting film actor Chiranjeevi to attend the massive rally held by the party under his leadership at Hyderabad on January 6, 2006, he told reporters here that he floated the new party BSP (Ambedkar-Phule) to take up the cause of Dalits.

Accusing Ms. Mayawati of deviating from the ideologies of BSP and its founder Kanshi Ram, he said after getting absolute majority in the UP Assembly on her own, she had developed a lot of complacency and wanted to become the PM with the blessings of the Left parties.