Newsmaker: Mayawati, returning to ideology

If her resignation leads to relocating issues before the Dalits, BSP could get a new lease of life

It was the smartest thing she could have done. When the hubbub in the Rajya Sabha drowned out her voice while she was trying to raise the issue of attacks on Dalits all over India, Mayawati did the only thing under the circumstances. She announced she was resigning from the Rajya Sabha, because it had denied her the chance to raise her voice against the oppression of her people. 

Anxious to be seen as a leader who would think nothing of chucking up a position to which she is unlikely to return to — after the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections,