BSP starts campaign to woo Brahmins

In an apparent attempt to deny that he was given importance in the BSP because he represented Mayawati in courts as a lawyer,Misra said he had not fought any case for the party or its chief before he was given the post of the advocate general of the state by Mayawati to give representation to a Brahmin. He said it was later that he decided to represent Mayawati in court after she was “framed” by the BJP government in the Taj corridor case.

He said Brahmins are 16 per cent of the state’s population and may get ignored but they can become a formidable force by integrating with 24 per cent population of Dalits in the state.

Calling the wariness of Brahmins from the BSP during the 2012 assembly elections a “mistake” by the community,Misra said any one may get “misguided” but it is the time to rectify that “mistake”.

Misra claimed there were innumerable benefits that Brahmins received in the BSP government and one of them was the representation given to them in the government and party. Even as sitting MP and party candidate from Sant Kabir Nagar Bhimshankar alias Kushal Tiwari introduced him as a rishi-putra (son of a saint),Misra urged the Brahmins not to feel miffed by the BSP’s opposition of manuvaad as it was not the opposition of any community but of a system.

However,Misra had to wind up his speech before time after he fainted while delivering his speech because of suffering a heat stroke.

Last month,Misra was tasked by party chief Mayawati to hold campaigns for Brahmin community in 38 Lok Sabha constituencies.