As Mayawati Turns 65, Her Biggest Challenge Remains Reviving Party and Facing Contenders
While the BSP supremo turns 65, the veteran politician faces the mammoth task of reviving her party.
Mayawati has also been considered as a strict and effective administrator, but in the current political scenario, the challenge remains before her to retain old leaders along with her vote bank.
BSP won the last state assembly elections in the state almost a decade ago. Since then, the party has stayed out of power. It will be interesting to watch how the party evolves for the upcoming 2022 state assembly elections.
It is the first time in her three-decade long political career that Mayawati had to lose four consecutive elections and at the same time deal with the rebelling party leaders. Since 2012, she has lost many veteran party leaders and also accused of giving party tickets in lieu of money. Despite these allegations, Mayawati has kept her vote bank intact, however not being able to