New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati turned 52 on Tuesday and gifted the state a spate of developmental projects including a Rs 30,000-crore Ganga Highway project connecting eastern UP to Delhi.
Her birthday cake is also getting bigger by the year. The feisty Bahujan Samaj Party supremo cut a 52-kg cake on a day which was celebrated by her supporters across the country - from lucknow to Delhi - with pomp and splendour.
With heavy gold necklace, golden watch and bright solid gold earrings in place, Mayawati looked every bit of a political diva. Her modest relatives, on the other hand, looked on in awe, hoping for her to scale greater heights.
"All of you want her to rule in Delhi. I am sure she will be able to do it,” said Mayawati’s father Prabhu Das.
Mayawati's fascination for colour pink still stays. These days when she comes to Delhi, her press conferences are held in five-star hotels, followed by lavish meals, seemingly sending across the message that for her Delhi is as much a home as Lucknow.
But her challenges are different in Lucknow and Delhi. On her home turf, she is accused of corruption, of wasteful expenditure on her birthday celebrations.
But she came clean on her big day. "These are the bills of electricity that have been paid for by my party workers (showing the bills). There is a propaganda to malign me,” she said.
In Delhi, she also launched her autobiography - Mayawati Ka Sangharsh.
But people want to know what is her equation with the Congress – a party which she has faced Maya wrath in recent elections.
"Both the PM and Sonia Gandhi called me to wish me on her birthday,” she said.
All indications that Mayawati's elephant is on the move. At 52, age is on her side and Delhi is calling out.
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