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Senior BSP leaders attacked by party workers in Rajasthan; Mayawati blames Congress

Two BSP leaders were garlanded with shoes, faces blackened and paraded outside the office by some of the BSP workers who alleged corruption in ticket allocation.

Senior BSP leaders attacked by party workers in Rajasthan; Mayawati blames Congress

BSP supremo Mayawati. (Photo: IANS)

In a bizarre incident on Tuesday, two Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leaders were garlanded with shoes, faces blackened and paraded outside the office by some of the BSP workers who alleged corruption in ticket allocation.

Ramji Gautam, the national coordinator, and Sitaram, former in-charge of the party’s state unit were the victims of the incident. The workers also made Gautam sit on a donkey and paraded outside the party office in Banipark.

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“Our workers are upset with the leaders. The workers have worked on the ground for five years but they have given ticket to parachute candidates, who are of the BJP and the Congress, in lieu of money. BSP workers and leaders are being ignored and exploited,” a BSP worker present there said.

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“We have held three demonstrations here but the leaders have not conveyed our plight (to BSP chief Mayawati). Therefore, we had to take this step,” he said.

BSP chief Mayawati condemned the incident and termed it as a shameful act and blamed the Congress for it.

In a tweet in Hindi, Mayawati said that, “Earlier Congress pulled out BSP legislators from the party, and now it is attacking the Ambedkar movement by targeting senior party members through such shameful act.”

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