Lucknow: Ahead of Uttar Pradesh elections, Dalit politics is heating up and the Bharatiya Janata Party is bracing itself to intensify its protests against the Bahujan Samaj Party. This comes after expelled BJP leader Dayashankar Singh's family filed an FIR against BSP chief Mayawati and her supporters for abusing his wife and daughter.
Singh's wife wants the complaint to be registered under the POCSO Act. She accused Mayawati for intimidation and promoting enmity.
Singh's family will get police protection.
Meanwile, an FIR has also been filed against Singh after he had compared Mayawati to a 'prostitute'. He is still not traceable.
After being on the backfoot, the BJP is backing Singh as they have realised that they can't afford to lose the Thakur vote that Singh represents.
Singh's mother Tetra Devi filed the complaint alleging Mayawati used "abusive language" against the women members of his family and that the BSP leaders raised "derogatory" slogans at the party protest in Lucknow on Thursday in which his 12-year-old daughter was also dragged into the row.
As raids were conducted by police overnight to trace Singh, the BJP sought to turn the tables on Mayawati, asking her to tender an apology and take action against her party leader Naseemuddin Siddiqui for his abusive language targeting Singh's daughter.
On the basis of Tetra Devi's complaint, an FIR was lodged against Mayawati, state unit president Ram Achal Rajbhar, national general secretary Naseemuddin and national secretary Mevalal besides unknown workers, police said.
The FIR has been registered under sections 120B (punishment for criminal conspiracy), 153 A (promoting enmity between different groups), 504 (intentional insult with intent to breach peace), 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) and 509 (word, gesture or act to insult modesty of woman) of the IPC, police said.
Tetra Devi had met the Hazratganj Police and submitted the complaint that she, her daughter, daughter-in-law and grand daughter were abused by BSP men who allegedly raised derogatory slogans during the protest.
Mayawati on her part said Dayashankar's mother, daughter or wife should have condemned what he said but they maintained silence.
"When our party workers spoke against them then they realised how it feels to be abused. So that's why some people said, this was to make Dayashankar realise the pain. So that in future he should not be abusive to anyone's daughter or wife."
(With additional information from PTI)
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