Chief watching,BSP men rise in House

“Behenji immediately gives directions whenever we digress from party line,or do not take up issues properly,” said Misrikh MP Ashok Kumar Rawat.

Be it intervening in discussions on Bills,raising questions on issues ranging from rural development to global affairs or participating in parliamentary committees,BSP has never been so sprightlier.

While Chief Whip of the

BSP Parliamentary Party Bhismshankar Tiwari said “we are more active in this Lok Sabha”,Ambedkar Nagar MP Rakesh Pandey added: “Behenji has directed us to attend Parliament with maximum zeal.”

The MPs also term this an attempt to come out of the confines of regional politics and establish national identity. “This time we are in a position to direct national politics,” Jaunpur MP Dhananjay Singh said.

They are keen to assert their identity. Member of Committee on External Affairs and Hamirpur MP Vijay Bahadur Singh,for instance,confronted S M Krishna during a committee meeting. “He indulged in usual rhetoric that our relations with neighbours are cordial. I asked what do you mean by cordial when China doesn’t recognise Arunachal? Don’t formulate China policy under fear,” Singh said.