Mayawati

Mayawati (Hindi: मायावती, Mayavati, born January 15, 1956 in Delhi ) is an Indian politician of the Bahujan Samaj Party. She had 1995, 1997, 2002-2003 and 2007-2012, the Office of the Chief Minister ( Government) of Uttar Pradesh, the most populous state of India held. It leads to a tax benefit of Rs 260 million for the year 2007/ 08 on the list of income tax payer among Indian politicians, which again raises the question of how she came to their assets. Your supporters like to call them " Behenji " our sister.

Life

Although she comes from a Dalit family from Delhi, she enjoyed an above-average education and graduated with a Bachelor of Law and a bachelor's degree in education from. After a brief career as a teacher and an education at the Academy of Public Administration ( Bharatiya Prashasanika Seva ), she was accepted by Kanshi Ram in his team, who appointed her in 2001 to his successor as leader of he founded the BSP, which they also succeeded after his death in 2006.

Policy

In the 2007 elections, she won with her BSP, the majority in Uttar Pradesh and has now for a long period, Chief Minister of the State after they had between 1995 and 2003 more occasions for short periods with changing coalitions office. While she applies her followers as a fighter against corruption, she is accused by opponents just this. Allen hostile defiance, among other things, due to the erection of monuments to Buddha and the founder of the Indian Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar Neobuddhismus succeeded Mayawati to increase in recent years their popularity.

In the months before the all-India general election, 2009 she was (besides Congress and BJP) called frequently as the ascending leading figure of the third bearing. With a meager profit of 2 mandates the choice for Mayawati and her BSP was very disappointing.

Until early 2010, Mayawati erected number of statues and statues of themselves and their former mentors with a total value of over U.S. $ 1 billion. Their political opponents accused her in return, trying to glorify themselves at the expense of taxpayers. After the monuments repeated target of vandalism and destruction was, Mayawati urged the establishment of a special police unit to protect the monuments. The cost of establishing the unit were estimated at $ 11.6 million U.S., their annual maintenance to around $ 3 Mio.US. The top Indian court prohibited the construction of other monuments is to an examination of the legality of its establishment completed.

The term of office of Mayawati ended on 7 March 2012, her successor is Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party, who has been in office since 15 March 2012.