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July 20, 2008
Mayawati King-maker
Now, Could be Queen
New Delhi
If Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief
Mayawati's smiles are any indication, she seems to have done a
'social engineering' of the numbers game in the national capital and
has emerged a king-maker for the front against the ruling United
Progressive Alliance (UPA).
After her first appearance with communist leader Prakash Karat last
week before mediapersons outside her house to announce that the Left
and BSP were joining hands against the UPA ahead of the crucial
trust vote July 22, Mayawati has busied herself with the singular
aim of ensuring the downfall of the government.
She did the same this week with Telengana Rashtriya Samiti (TRS)
leader K. Chandrashekhar Rao when both came along.
First, she walked out with Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Ajit Singh
Sunday after both leaders met at her residence. Within minutes of
that meeting, Ajit Singh dumped the UPA offer to side with the BSP-Left
combine.
The move ensured that the UPA was three MPs short of their
calculations to get to the figure of 271 MPs needed to win the trust
vote.
Later in the day, Mayawati reached the residence of former prime
minister and Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) leader H.D. Deve Gowda to
seek what she called his "blessings and help". She got these in
plenty when Deve Gowda, whose party has three MPs, walked up with
her to address the media and announce that he was not supporting the
UPA.
Mayawati, who has openly spelled out her ambition to be prime
minister of the country, does not seem very far from realising it if
she continues to pull the rug from under the feet of the UPA and its
supporters ahead of the trust vote.
IANS
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July 20, 2008
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