Yesterday, BJP party leader Daya Shankar Singh gave a surprising remark on Mayawati, and as we all expected it turns worse. This was not first time when a BJP leader has let down the party with his negligent remark. From Union Minister of State Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti to Unnao MP Sakshi Maharaj and Gorakhpur MP Yogi Adityanath, there have been many leaders whose speeches had offensive statements had put the party’s top leadership on a sticky wicket.
BJP leader said, “But these leaders had made the remarks against a particular minority community that never vote to BJP in Uttar Pradesh. Hence party never took action against them and completed the formality by condemning their remarks,”
The leader added that the party had only issued show cause notice to Sakshi Maharaj in January 2015 when he had urged Hindu women to produce at least four children to protect Hinduism in India. Maharaj had also said that madrasas were making students ‘terrorists’ and ‘Jihadis’ and they encourage Muslim youths to marry Hindu girls.
BSP leader said, “We are not going to leave this opportunity to show our ‘power’ when recently two senior leaders Swami Prasad Maurya and RK Chaudhary quit the party. After these leaders quit, both BJP and SP had started calling BSP out of 2017 contest”
A BJP leader said that the way Mayawati raised the issue, it is clear that BSP was going to make it an issue upto district level. “In that situation, Daya Shankar’s remark was going to affect the BJP’s plan to attract Dalit voters.