Dayashankar Singh’s family files FIR against Mayawati

Family members of expelled BJP leader Dayashankar Singh on Friday filed an FIR in Lucknow against Mayawati and senior BSP leaders for allegedly using foul language against them.

Dayashankar Singh was expelled+ from the BJP for his derogatory comments questioning the character of the BSP chief. He had said that “Mayawati is breaking the dream of Kanshi Ram into pieces. Mayawati is selling tickets like a sex worker.”

Meanwhile, raids were conducted by police overnight to trace Dayashankar Singh who had gone in hiding since the registration of an FIR against him for his derogatory remarks.

There were unconfirmed reports that Singh could surrender in the court in Lucknow. BSP workers held a protest+ against the derogatory remarks made by Singh. BSP workers, who staged a dharna in front of the Bhimrao Ambedkar statue in Hazratganj, had displayed banners with foul language printed on them on Thursday.

Singh’s family lodged an FIR against Mayawati and BSP workers, saying it was question about the integrity of women. ” My daughter, who is a minor+ , is in a state of shock after the incident. I have lodged an FIR against Mayawati and other party leaders and will fight a legal battle,” Singh’s wife Swati told reporters.

“My husband is in politics, but we have no political connection. The manner in which BSP workers acted yesterday and the language used by them during protest was derogatory,” she said.

Swati said that her family was being dragged into the controversy unnecessarily. “Why Mayawati is not taking action against Nassemuddin Siddiqui. Why he was not expelled from the party. I don’t want to imagine what is the state of my 80-year-old mother-in-law,” she said.

“While BSP leader Satish Chandra Mishra said that nothing like this happened, but the entire country has witnessed and listened the foul language used by BSP workers during protest on Thursday. It is about the integrity of women,” she said.