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	Mayawati - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mayawati Kumari (born January 15, 1956) is a politician in India who currently the president of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) which is a national party though it is influential mainly in Uttar Pradesh.
		Mayawati is the first Dalit woman to become the Chief Minister of any of India's states representing the social transformations in India.
		Mayawati studied law at the University of Delhi and worked as a teacher before embarking on a political career as the protege of Kanshi Ram, the founder of the BSP.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mayawati (498 words)

	An Opulent and Pugnacious Champion of India's Outcasts
		Mayawati, who like many Dalits uses only one name, claims Dr. Ambedkar's mantle, but she seems more akin to the Rev. Al Sharpton, who is often mired in controversy.
		Mayawati and the party's founder, her mentor, Kanshi Ram, have leveraged the sheer multitudes of India's poor.
		Mayawati belongs to the Chamar, or Jatav caste, traditionally leather workers, as did almost half of the party's voters last year in assembly elections.
	www2.kenyon.edu /Depts/Religion/Fac/Adler/Reln101/Mayawati.htm (1534 words)

	THE UTTAR PRADESH DRAMA
		Mayawati, who, foresaw the development, resigned from her membership of the Assembly on August 28, in order to escape the humiliation of having to lead a party that was reduced to the third position in the House.
		AS for Mayawati, it is becoming clear that she regrets her decision to snap ties with the BJP in such haste.
		Mayawati knows that an alliance with the BJP would be more beneficial to her than one with the Congress(I).
	www.flonnet.com /fl2019/stories/20030926005200400.htm (2959 words)

	Mayawati embroiled in funds scandal -DAWN - International; March 6, 2003
		Mayawati is facing accusations of scouting for dirty money from corrupt politicians after the release of a tape where she is seen cajoling BSP leaders into parting with a slice of their slush money.
		Mayawati’s 107 regional BSP party legislators are dependent on 87 members of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s BJP party to remain in power in Uttar Pradesh, which is also India’s most politically strategic state.
		The tape shows Mayawati ordering BSP parliamentarians and state lawmakers to give her some of the kickbacks they allegedly earn from a one million-rupee annual fund they are each given for development projects.
	www.dawn.com /2003/03/06/int3.htm (471 words)

	Mayawati complains of victimization -DAWN - International; September 20, 2003
		Mayawati launched the attack a day after the Supreme Court told the police to bring criminal charges against her for her links to a plan to build a garish shopping mall near the 17th-century mausoleum.
		Mayawati broke a legislative alliance with India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and quit last month as chief minister, a post she held three times in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state.
		Mayawati, who projects herself as a messiah for India’s millions of lower-caste people, rejected charges that she has amassed millions of dollars by using her political clout.
	www.dawn.com /2003/09/20/int6.htm (429 words)

	Cover: MAYA MAHAL; Oct 5, 2003. The Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Mayawati later claimed that the farmhouse belonged to her forefathers and was handed over to her in 1995.
		The CBI is also looking into the favours Mayawati doled out to her loyalists in the bureaucracy and outside in the last few months of her rule.
		Mayawati has accused 'manuvadis' of hatching a conspiracy against her and has reiterated that she was unaware of the details of the project.
	www.the-week.com /23oct05/cover.htm (2535 words)

	Mayawati makes room for Congress rebels
		Mayawati claimed in New Delhi on Friday that at least two dozen Samajwadi Party MLAs were also ready to join her party.
		Mayawati held a closed-door meeting with her party legislators on Thursday night.
		Mayawati told her partymen that the move was necessary to strengthen the foundations of her government.
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/feb/01up1.htm (238 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Mayawati: Dalit firebrand
		Mayawati Kumari was born into the low-caste Hindu Jatav, or Chamar, community.
		At the age of 39, the unmarried Mayawati was also the youngest politician to assume the chief minister's office in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state.
		With her image perhaps in mind, Ms Mayawati has a new look, sporting bobbed hair, instead of the oily plait and ponytails she had until two years ago.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/1958378.stm (448 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Mayawati added that she was against a special court to try any important person, as, in her regime all were equal in the eyes of law.
		Mayawati said that the very purpose of constituting special court was defeated when the CBI filed a joint chargesheet clubbing case numbers 197/92 and 198/92 in the special CBI court in Lucknow.
		Mayawati, accused "anti-social elements" for the demolition of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992.
	www.islamonline.net /english/news/2002-09/19/article46.shtml (903 words)

	Mayawati demands special quota for MOBCs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Mayawati, who demanded the special quota for the MOBCs in the state, when the chief minister had categorically said that the he would reserve quota for these castes in view of the discrimination being faced by them.
		Mayawati said:" V P was today courting Mulayam whom he had criticised bitterly in the past only for the sake of gaining some personal favours.
		Mayawati once again said that her party would not have a tie up with any political party in Uttar Pradesh and would contest all the 403 seats of Vidhan Sabha of its own.
	www.ambedkar.org /News/Mayawatidemands1.htm (437 words)

	State of Indian Polity : Turbulent waters of Uttar Pradesh,Indian Politics, News Analysis, India News Online
		Though Mayawati may not be happy at the sight of her arch rival ascending the throne in UP, observers are of the opinion that by inviting Mulayam Singh Yadav to form an alternative Government, State Governor Vishnu Kant Shastri played it by the book.
		Mayawati has said that she will start a countrywide campaign against the BJP that “pulled down” her government because she did not withdraw Babri mosque demolition cases against some top BJP leaders (who include Deputy Prime Minister Advani) and had refused to wind up the Special Court at Rae Bareli.
		Mayawati’s experiment of aligning with the upper castes to expand her constituency may not have worked as a majority of the deserters who walked over to Mulayam camp are MLAs from this section.
	news.indiamart.com /news-analysis/state-of-indian-poli-860.html (2425 words)

	Mayawati spends crores to fulfil her b'day dream (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The bulk of the buyers were her ministers, legislators, functionaries, bureaucrats and police officers, whom she has been shuffling like a pack of cards ever since she assumed the chief minister's office for a third stint eight months ago.
		Kanshi Ram, her mentor and BSP chief, and Lalji Tandon of the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is a member of the ruling coalition, were on stage when Mayawati cut the cake.
		There were many ballads in praise of Mayawati and her achievements during the three-hour show.
	www.rediff.com.cob-web.org:8888 /news/2003/jan/15up.htm (690 words)

	Mayawati denounced Cong dynasty - The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Mayawati flew in here to publicly announce the candidature of tribal leader C K Janu who was contesting the polls from Wayanad.
		Talking to press at the airport Mayawati said her party was against family rule.
		Mayawati sounded she was unhappy at the Congress ditching her.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/575432.cms (251 words)

	Uttar Pradesh: Mayawati kicks both friend and foe on the shin, Feb 9, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		By splitting the Congress, Mayawati consolidated her position and scotched BJP rebels' plan to topple her government.
		Mayawati had begun moves to split the Congress as soon as BJP dissidents raised the rebel flag last November.
		This was obviously done under the orders of the chief minister, who holds a grudge against the father and son for instigating the BJP dissidents against her.
	www.the-week.com /23feb09/events9.htm (994 words)

	Mayawati: from 'talwar' to 'tilak'- The Times of India (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Mayawati has assigned party's Thakur leaders to organise district-level meetings and convince people that only BSP could fight for their pride.
		Mayawati was also doubtful of landing a success in luring the Thakurs due to her animosity towards Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya, whom she got arrested under Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA).
		Mayawati's new move has dealt a blow to Brahmin leaders in her party, who made their enmity with Thakurs public by projecting epic icon Parashuram as their caste leader.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com.cob-web.org:8888 /articleshow/1149843.cms (548 words)

	The Taj impact
		Although unexpected turn of events forced Mayawati to backtrack from her demand for the dismissal of Union Culture Minister Jagmohan for "his complicity in the project", the State BJP leaders lost no opportunity to demand a review of the alliance.
		The tough stand of the BJP forced Mayawati on July 29 to retract from her belligerence; she withdrew the demand for Jagmohan's dismissal and declared that the differences between the alliance partners would be sorted out.
		Besides, since Mayawati held the finance portfolio as well, the CBI is trying to ascertain how the Rs.175-crore project could be taken up without her approval.
	www.flonnet.com /fl2019/stories/20030926007301200.htm (1378 words)

	Mayawati Ashram (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Mayawati shot into prominence after the Advait Ashram was established here.
		During his third visit to Almora in 1898, Swami Vivekanand decided to shift the publication office of 'Prabuddh Bharat' from Madras to Mayawati, from where it is published since then.
		The only presence that has become a part of the peace and solitude of Mayawati, is that of the mighty Himalaya in all its splendor.
	ua.nic.in /champawat/m1.htm (125 words)

	Mayawati refuses to contest bypolls with allies
		Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati's decision not to contest the two crucial assembly byelections in February jointly with the Bharatiya Janata Party does not portend well for the BJP-Bahujan Samaj Party alliance.
		Mayawati turned down the BJP's request to leave the Gauriganj seat for its candidate Tej Bhan, who lost to the Congress nominee by 300 votes in the last assembly election.
		At the state level, he is considered as the moving force behind the alliance with the BSP and is perceived as sharing a good rapport with Mayawati.
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/feb/01up.htm (296 words)

	CBI questions Mayawati in Taj corridor case
		A senior official said Mayawati's statement was recorded in connection with the Rs 175 crore project in which Rs 17 crore had already been released.
		Mayawati had earlier claimed that she was not aware of the project and was kept in the dark by state government officials.
		The interrogation of the former chief minister was on the cards after the Supreme Court, under whose order the CBI had initiated the probe, had ordered the investigating agency to quiz the 'high and mighty' and file the report by September 11.
	search.rediff.com /news/2003/sep/01taj.htm (294 words)

	The Hindu : Mayawati prefers natural alliance to electoral tie-up
		Mayawati said the Congress had approached her party for an alliance.
		Mayawati said her party was not averse to entering into an alliance if the BSP and the alliance partner would mutually benefit from the tie-up.
		Mayawati favoured a "natural alliance" of voters comprising Dalits, members of the Other Backward Classes, and the minorities, who constituted 85 per cent of the country's population.
	www.hindu.com /2004/03/24/stories/2004032407250300.htm (652 words)

	\|\| Businessworld - Play the game \|\|
		BAHUJAN Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati may have had dinner with Congress president Sonia Gandhi twice, but she is far from agreeing to a pre-election alliance with the Congress.
		In fact, Mayawati is believed to have told Sonia during their last meeting that BSP intends to contest the Parliamentary elections alone.
		Mayawati seems inclined to bail out the Congress in these two seats, but she is demanding a heavy price for her support.
	www.businessworldindia.com /mar0104/news11.asp (414 words)

	India Today Uttar Pradesh Mayawati: A Captive Legacy
		Mayawati has rewritten the state's political script and will try to ensure that Kalyan Singh pursues her policies if he becomes chief minister next month.
		Mayawati disembarks in the pouring rain, followed by a dozen-odd officials, umbrellas in hand.
		When her time runs out, she would have left several monuments to Mayawati in the shape of the Ambedkar parks that have become the new landmarks across the state.
	www.india-today.com /itoday/01091997/maya.html (1676 words)

	The Hindu : Mayawati goes; U.P. Governor asks Mulayam for list (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Chief Minister, Mayawati, who had recommended the dissolution of the Assembly yesterday today tendered her resignation, simultaneously expressing her unwillingness to continue as the caretaker Chief Minister anymore.
		Mayawati seemed to have taken the move to resign to pre-empt the imposition of President's rule in the State.
		Mayawati said the leaders of the BJP and other parties had been "propagating" that she was power-hungry and wanted to cling to the post.
	www.hinduonnet.com.cob-web.org:8888 /thehindu/2003/08/27/stories/2003082706560100.htm (806 words)

	24 SP MLAs waiting to join BSP govt: Mayawati (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Friday night said two dozen MLAs from the Samajwadi Party in the state were in touch with her to break away from the party and join her government.
		In reply to another query, Mayawati said the POTA case against jailed independent MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh would not be withdrawn and she stood by whatever she had said on this matter earlier.
		On whether the BJP and BSP will have a poll understanding in the coming byelections in the state, Mayawati said the electoral tie up between the two parties was restricted only to the 2004 Lok Sabha elections.
	www.indiaabroad.com /news/2003/jan/31up.htm (187 words)

	Bhojpuria Samachar - The Exclusive News from Bhojpuria region
		Lucknow: Mayawati was re-elected to the post of national president of the Bahujan Samaj Party for the second time on Sunday.
		Giving clarification about her property as well as of senior leaders, Mayawati said all the landed properties and vehicles purchased in various states had been registered in the name of the party.
		Directing the party cadre to prepare for the urban local bodies election, Mayawati said the state government was trying to delay the poll, but the state government might be forced to issue the notification under the pressure of the High Court.
	www.bhojpuria.com /samachar/news.php?a=1252 (602 words)

	Coalition politics: Mayawati open to alliance with Cong
		Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati has indicated that she is open to the idea of an alliance with the Congress Party.
		The curtains would also fall on the probe against Mayawati's then cabinet colleague Nasiuddin Siddiqui as the CBI has decided to close the case against him as well under similar circumstances.
		Mayawati however, is not completely out of trouble as the disproportionate assets case against her would continue.
	www.spiritofchennai.com /news/a0155.htm (299 words)

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