Author: PTI
Publication: DNA (Daily News & Analysis)
Date: February 28, 2009
URL: http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1235023
The Bahujan Samaj Party's 'Brahmin Samaj Bhaichara'
rally organised here today turned out to be a flop show as most members of
the community boycotted it in protest against the party fielding gangster
Mukhtar Ansari from the holy city for the coming Lok Sabha election.
The rally, addressed by the BSP's general
secretary and Mayawati's chief strategist Satish Chandra Mishra, MP, was attended
by only a handful of Brahmins against the party's claim of participation by
thousands of community members.
Asked about the thin attendance, one of the
BSP's prominent Brahmin leaders said on condition of anonymity, "This
has happened in reaction to the candidature of mafia don Mukhtar Ansari from
this cultural city."
Professor Reva Prasad Dwivedi, former dean
of the Prachya Vidya Dharma Vigyan faculty, Benaras Hindu University, told
the Press Trust of India, "Brahmin rally for votes in the Lok Sabha election
is totally immoral, and when it is for the mobilisation of voters in favour
of a mafia don, it is really unfortunate."
Another professor, Narendra Rampati Tripathi,
said the BSP will suffer in the entire state in the Lok Sabha election for
fielding Ansari.