New Delhi: Mayawati, chief of the Bahujan Samaj Party, who angrily walked out of the Rajya Sabha this morning, has quit alleging that she was not allowed to speak on what she called frequent attacks on Dalits in Uttar Pradesh.
New Delhi: Mayawati, chief of the Bahujan Samaj Party, who angrily walked out of the Rajya Sabha this morning, has quit alleging that she was not allowed to speak on what she called frequent attacks on Dalits in Uttar Pradesh.
A senior leader of her party SC Mishra said that his boss has not handed out an empty threat. She is adamant that she will resign today from the upper house of Parliament, he said.
Soon after the Rajya Sabha convened this morning for the second day of the monsoon session, Mayawati, a former Uttar Pradesh chief minister, sought to speak, alleging that Dalits were being targeted in Saharanpur in the state, now ruled by the BJP. She was soon seen walking out in a rage.
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