BSP146;s 145;absolute146; necessity: Upper caste

Mayawati steered clear of the BSP8217;s pet anti-Manuvadi issues in an apparent bid to appease the rebellious Thakur lobby which initiated the crisis: 8216;8216;If every segment of the bahujan samaj joins the BSP, we can get a majority. But to get an absolute majority, we have to also get the upper castes to join us.8221;

Training her guns on SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, Mayawati blasted him for calling the Babasaheb Ambedkar park a den of vice: 8216;8216;If it hadn8217;t been for Babasaheb, Mulayam Singh and his son would still be grazing cows in Etawah.8217;8217;

Her footsoldiers listened in rapt attention while she sat on the dias, lecturing them on politics and chiding them for not abiding by her instructions during the dhikkar rally: 8216;8216;The stampede overshadowed the success of the rally of 20 lakh Dalits.8217;8217;

Denying that she has been coercing political rivals to submission, an agitated Mayawati told mediapersons at a post-conference press meet that the arrests were not politically motivated: 8216;8216;They were arrested on the basis of Bundela8217;s FIR and not on my orders.8217;8217;

Ruling out the need to call a special session of Assembly, she said: 8216;8216;Our government is not in minority. They SP have not been able to give the names of 204 MLAs.8221;