After threatening to resign from Rajya Sabha on Tuesday morning, Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) MP and party chief Mayawathi submitted her resignation to the Vice President on Tuesday evening.
The Chair had asked Mayawati to restrict her impromptu speech in Rajya Sabha (RS) on Dalit violence in Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, provoking her to take the step.
“I will resign from Rajya Sabha today,” a visibly anguished Mayawati shot back when Deputy Chairman P J Kurien asked her to wrap up her speech as she had exceeded the three minutes given to her to make her submission.
Mayawati, whose term in the Upper House is till April next year, argued with Kurien saying how can she be prevented from raising the issue about her ‘samaj’ (community) and the Dalits. “I have not finished. You cannot do this.”
“I have no moral right to be in the House if I am not allowed to put across my views on atrocities being committed against Dalits,” she said.
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