Lucknow: Bureaucrats apparently make the best weathercock as far as politics is concerned. If this holds true, there is good news for the Bahujan Samaj Party in the Assembly elections. While psephologists must be still racking their brains about the results in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, a large section of the bureaucracy has started making a beeline for the BSP president Mayawati.
A party functionary at the BSP state headquarters, disclosed, “We have already started receiving calls from top IAS and IPS officers who want to convey their best wishes to Behenji (Mayawati). Some have even sent bouquets for her while others are seeking appointments. However, the party president is busy campaigning and had not responded to the calls though we do submit a list of callers to her every evening”. According to sources, some top officers have even visited the BSP president’s family in Delhi to ‘convey our wishes’.
One such bureaucrat admitted, on condition of anonymity, that he had met her brother in Delhi. “I have worked under Ms Mayawati and since I was in Delhi recently, I met her brother for a courtesy call”, he said. When asked, he admitted that there were clear indications that the BSP is on a comeback trail. “The BSP may or may not get a clear majority but there is no doubt that it will merge as a single largest party”.
