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Mayawati is a distinguished Indian politician

One of the many colourful characters in Indian politics, Mayawati Kumari is leader of the Bahujan Samaj Party and a prominent politician in India's most populous state. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Indian politician and the current Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Mayawati has been in the post for the fourth term. In UP, Mayawati has undisputed hold over the Dalit votes. She is so confident about the loyalty of her 'vote bank' that in public meetings she has accepted that she takes money from Thakur-Brahmin candidates to run her party.
   In the last election in UP, she secured 98 seats out of 403 seats with 23 per cent of the vote share. She is one of the main proponents of the divide-and-rule policy prevalent in Indian politics. She is the highest income-tax payer among all politicians in India paying Rs. 26 crore for year 2007-08.
   Kumari Mayawati (i.e. Chandawati Devi) was born in Delhi to Ram Rati and Prabhu Das. Her father Prabhu Das worked as a clerk in the telecommunications department. She graduated from Kalindi College in Delhi and holds both Bachelor of Law and Bachelor of Education degrees. She worked as a teacher in Delhi (Inderpuri JJ Colony) during which time she studied for the Indian Administrative Service exam. In 1977, Kanshi Ram became very influential in her life resulting in her joining his core team when he founded the BSP in 1984. Shortly after, she changed her career path and entered politics full time.
   In 1984, Kanshi Ram founded the BSP as a party to represent the Buddhists and Dalits, and Mayawati was one of the key persons in the new organization. In 2001, Kanshi Ram named her as his successor.
   BSP fielded Mayawati for its first election campaign from the Kairana Lok Sabha seat in the Muzaffarnagar district in 1984, and then again for the Lok Sabha seats of Bijnor in 1985 and Haridwar in 1989. Although they did not win, the electoral experience led to considerable groundwork over the next five years, (working with Mahsood Ahmed and other organizers). Because the Dalits are widely-spread over the state, Kanshi Ram and Mayawati then adopted a policy of attracting other groups, which continues today.
   Kumari first won for the Lok Sabha elections in 1989 from Bijnor. In 1995, while a member of the Rajya Sabha, she became a chief minister in a short-lived coalition government, and validated her position by winning from two constituencies in 1996. She was again Chief Minister for a short period in 1997, and then for a somewhat longer term in coalition with the Bharatiya Janata Party from 2002 to 2003.
   In 2003, during one of her tenures as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati was accused of corruption by the opposition, Samajwadi Party. The Samajwadi Party legislators presented a video cassette and a CD to the Governor of Uttar Pradesh, which they claimed showed Mayawati asking her MLAs to hand over money from their annual constituency fund towards BSP's party fund. Shortly thereafter, Mayawati got more than 140 cases filed against her bete noire and head of Samajwadi Party, Mulayam Singh Yadav, for alleged misuse of the Chief Minister's Discretionary Fund when he headed the government in 1995-96. She also got first information reports (FIRs) registered against other leaders of the Samajwadi Party.
   In her tenures as Chief Minister, Mayawati has erected a number of monuments to Buddhist and Dalit heroes like Bhimrao Ambedkar and others.
   Contrary to some poll predictions, BSP won a majority, the first such majority since 1991. Mayawati managed to attract support from Brahmins, Thakurs and Muslims voted for the first time for a Dalit party, partly because BSP had offered seats to people from these communities. As usual, this was accompanied by a colourful slogan: Haathi nahin, Ganesh hain, Brahma, Vishnu Mahesh Hain: The elephant (BSP Logo) is really the wise Ganesh, the trinity of gods rolled into one.
   Kumari Mayawati's first action was to suspend two IAS officers for non-performance to maintain the Ambedkar Park in Lucknow. She has transferred around 100 police officers.
   She has begun a campaign to crackdown on corrupt police officers recruited during the previous Mulayam Singh regime. So far 17,868 policemen have lost their jobs for irregularities in the recruitment process and 25 IPS officers were suspended for being involved in corruption while recruiting the police constables. She has also opened case files relating to land deals of the leading actor Amitabh Bachchan in Barabanki, who was close to the previous Samajwadi Party regime.
   Since attracting the votes of upper castes, she now talks about a policy for poverty-based reservations rather than caste-based reservations
   Taj corridor case is an alleged scam where in 2002-2003, then Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Mayawati was charged with corruption. The Taj Corridor project was a project to upgrade tourist facilities near the Taj Mahal implemented during her tenure as Chief Minister. The BJP government at the Centre at that time gave the Environmental Clearance required for such project near Taj Mahal. However, later on BJP backed out and then started saying that the project is not cleared by the Environment Ministry and blamed Mayawati for starting construction work near the Taj Mahal.
  
   Broadening appeal
   In her years out of power, Mayawati consolidated her position and worked to broaden her base. She opted for an image makeover - oily plaits and ponytails made way for short bobbed hair. Having once campaigned telling Dalits to beat upper-caste Hindus four times with their shoes, she toned down her anti-upper-caste rhetoric. Her new slogan invited everyone, including the higher castes, to "come ride the elephant", her party's election symbol.
   In the latest elections, in 2007, she fielded more Muslim and upper-caste candidates than ever before, securing a clear majority that may help her last a full five-year term. Her party also did well in dozens of parliamentary seats outside Uttar Pradesh, becoming seen as a significant player in about 10 states.
   Whether she can become India's first "untouchable" prime minister will depend on whether the two main national parties, Congress and BJP, fall sufficiently short of a majority.
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