Jaipur, Sept 28: In a setback to Bahujan Samaj Party in Rajasthan ahead of assembly elections, three senior leaders today formed a new party accusing the newly appointed BSP chief Mayawati of being a "dictator".
Shiv Dan Meghwal, Dharampal Kataria and Dilip Singh
Marwal, former state unit chiefs, announced at a press
conference here formation of Rashtriya Bahujan Samaj Party and
claimed that nine district BSP chiefs and a large number of
party cadre had joined them.
"We refuse to accept Mayawati as our chief... Kanshi Ram
remains our leader", they said pledging loyalty to the bed
ridden BSP supremo.
The new BSP president and former Uttar Pradesh chief
minister Mayawati was "behaving like a dictator", they
alleged.
Meghwal has been made president of the new party RBSP
and Kataria, Marwal and Awasthi its vice-presidents.
The RBSP would contest 75 to 100 seats in the coming
assembly polls, Meghwal said.
The setback to BSP comes at a time it was trying to
expand its base in the state for the coming polls.
Earlier, its MLA Mahir Azad had left the party to join
Congress.
Bureau Report
