Why touring India didn't help Mayawati much
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In her obsession to ascend the throne in New Delhi, Mayawati lost the plot in her only bastion, Uttar Pradesh. She spread herself far too thin across India touring far-flung areas in the southern, western and eastern parts of the country although there was no realistic chance of any of these returning a single party candidate in the current Lok Sabha polls. The BSP supremo, who hardly addressed any public meetings in Uttar Pradesh till the penultimate stages of the poll campaign, ended up by getting ambushed by her political opponents on her home turf. One big mistake that Mayawati made was to assume that the electoral template of the current Lok Sabha polls was the same as that of the 2007 Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh when she had the tail wind of a widespread resentment across the state against the then chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav propelling....
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Ajoy Bose, a prolific journalist and author began his career in Patriot newspaper and went on to become Delhi correspondent of Sunday magazine. He also started the Delhi edition of The Sunday Observer and was India correspondent of The Guardian. He has also authored For Reasons of State: Delhi under Emergency and The Shah Commission. In 2008, he wrote Behenji – a political biography of Mayawati.
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