Mayawati sees plot to kill in security cut

LUCKNOW, DEC 12: Bahujan Samaj Party vice-president Mayawati today alleged that the state BJP Government had withdrawn the Z-plus securit...

LUCKNOW, DEC 12: Bahujan Samaj Party vice-president Mayawati today alleged that the state BJP Government had withdrawn the Z-plus security given to her by the Union Government in 1995 under a conspiracy hatched to eliminate her. She sent a letter to the President on the matter.

8220;If I am killed by someone tomorrow, the Kalyan Singh Government will be responsible for it,8221; she said. The same level of security provided to the Samajwadi Party national president had not been withdrawn, she complained.Under the Z-plus security, three watch towers and several sentry posts had been built to protect her house in Lucknow, she said. Four of the posts have been removed by the Kalyan Government as well as the pilot car provided to her. Eight Scheduled Caste security members and three others had been removed so that policemen and officers of other castes could be posted, she alleged, adding that this was done so that a conspiracy to kill her could be easily carried out.

Mayawati said that one of the sentry posts hadbeen set up to 8220;guard8221; her against Samajwadi Party leader Beni Prasad Verma, who stays behind her house and who, she said, had been involved in the attack on her at a guest house on June 2, 1995. Any miscreant could climb a tree in Verma8217;s house and enter her house, she feared.

On the right of her house, Mayawati went on, was the Cane Commisioner8217;s office where employees often went on strike. She had built a watch tower there. On the left was Rajendra Singh house, where wedding ceremonies were often organised. According to her, a sentry post was needed there too.Meanwhile, BSP vice-president Mayawati has ruled out forging alliance with any party in future elections to the Lok Sabha or Uttar Pradesh assembly, which it predicted could be held early next year. Mayawati told reporters here that the party would contest the future elections, particularly to the Uttar Pradesh assembly, 8220;at our own, considering that BSP alone can give a fight to the ruling BJP.8221;

Predicting these elections to be held inFebruary-March next year, she said the BSP was fully geared to face the mid-term polls.

Referring to the recent assembly elections in Rajasthan, Delhi and Madhya Pradesh, she claimed that the BSP had ensured defeat of BJP, thus enabling Congress to emerge victorious. 8220;Though there was no formal alliance with Congress in these states, we had issued clear instructions to party workers to transfer party8217;s votes to Congress and defeat BJP there,8221; the BSP leader said. She added that this formula, however, would not be applied in case of Uttar Pradesh.