Click to play videoNew Delhi: On Saturday, a day of dramatic twists and turns Bahujan Samaj Party supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati became the new rallying point for the United National Progressive Alliance (UNPA) leaders.
Mayawati also succeeded in roping in some Samajwadi Party (SP) Members of Parliament into her fold.
She had arrived in Delhi on Saturday morning and immediately her elephant trampled upon the SP cycle.
She went about her work businesslike, engineering defections from the SP camp.
SP MP from Jalesar SP Singh Baghel switched sides to BSP taking the SP casualty toll to five. And then came the big catch SP General Secretary and Rajya Sabha MP Shahid Siddiqui.
Just 48 hours before the Vote of Confidence, Mayawati seems to have mesmerised fence sitters and the not-so-loyal specially in the SP. Her canvas seems to be expanding and is no longer restricted to UP.
And as for her views on the Congress-SP alliance, she said, "The Samajwadi Party leaders and their family members are under the CBI scanner and so to get rid of that they have made a deal."
So, she took complete charge and her visitors included those wanting to prop up the UNPA like Telugu Desam Party President N Chandrababu Naidu and even other smaller players.
Slowly and surely, she is grabbing the centrestage of Indian politics.
"Why can't she be PM? There is every possibility that she can be one," Naidu said about Mayawati.
Mayawati, therefore, is the new leader of a redesigned Third Front.
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