Lucknow: On Sunday, UP Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma said Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati is suffering from "political depression" as she fears defeat of her party's candidates in the general election underway and as a result, she is losing her temper and patience. He claimed Mayawati is showing weakness and her memory is fading.

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"All these symptoms are clearly visible in the statements of the BSP supremo," he told PTI in an interview. Mr. Sharma said Mayawati needed a "political health tonic".

BSP Supremo, who is leading the BSP-SP-RLD alliance in UP with SP President Akhilesh Yadav, has regularly hit out at the Bhartiya Janta Party on Twitter and in campaign rallies, claiming that its government at the Centre is "autocratic" and has resorted to various means to "scare" senior leaders of the opposition parties. She has said the Centre "badly failed" to tackle issues like terrorism and Naxalism. 

"BSP chief Mayawati is suffering from political depression (rajnaitik avsaad), which stems from the fact that her party fared badly in the past five phases in the state, and defeat of BSP candidates is imminent in the last two phases. It's the same with her alliance partners," Sharma said.

He claimed that in the coming days, the symptoms of her "depression" will become more evident and she will make "anaap, shanaap" (loose) remarks. "It is for this reason that she is calling the prime minister a 'fake backward'. She must revamp her memory, and for this, she needs a political health tonic," Mr. Sharma said.

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