Mayawati Responds to Expulsion Reports: ‘People Are Free to Marry Anyone'

Mayawati Responds to Expulsion Reports: Talking to reporters at the Lucknow headquarters of the party, Mayawati said, "Such leaders should also understand the freedom that the party gives all its employees to marry people from other parties." She added, "Furthermore, personal matters should not be decided based on a party".

When Surendra Sagar, the BSP's Rampur district president, had his son marry the daughter of Tribhuvan Dutt, the Samajwadi Party MLA from Alapur in Ambedkar Nagar. Dutt switched parties from the BSP to the SP before the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh in 2022.

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In response to the reports, BSP supremo Mayawati addressed the matter in a series of posts on X in Hindi on Friday night, saying that Sagar and the current district president of BSP in Rampur, Pramod Kumar, were expelled from the party due to a simmering dispute between them and had nothing to do with the marriage.

“The quarrel between former party president of Rampur district Surendra Sagar and current party president Pramod Kumar was at its peak due to which the party's work was suffering. Both of them were expelled and it has got nothing to do with the marriage,” Mayawati clarfified.

“The party (BSP) is not concerned with the personal relationships of its cadre. People are free to marry anyone they want. It all depends on their thinking. But be cautious of those who spread false propaganda about this,” she said.

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In another tweet, Mayawati stated that party members were barred from attending the wedding of Munqad Ali's son, the former BSP MP, because his daughter contested the state assembly by-election from Meerapur on an SP ticket.

The former MP Qadir Rana's son Shah Mohammad has married Sumbul Rana, the SP candidate for the Meerapur Assembly constituency.

“The BSP also contested the seat. In such a situation, there was a general discussion about possible clashes between the people of both parties at the wedding. To avoid this, the party was forced to take this step. But the way it is being publicised is not right,” Mayawati said.

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