Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati is all set to sound the bugle for the 2012 political battle from Lucknow on Tuesday, which also marks the sixth death anniversary of her mentor and party founder Kanshi Ram.
Slated to emerge as a grand show of her party's strength well before the next Lok Sabha elections, the rally is expected to draw lakhs of supporters from different corners of the state.
Significantly, Mayawati is also expected to announce her party's final decision on the key question of continuation of support to the United Progressive Alliance regime at the Centre. She will also declare her stand on the crucial issue of Foreign Direct Investment in retail, which she had kept up her sleeve for so long.
As many as 11 special trains have been chartered by the BSP to bring its volunteers from various parts of the state, where local BSP leaders have been assigned the task of mobilising people for the mega event. Besides, many would be arriving by road.
What has given a shot in the arm to Tuesday's rally is the Akhilesh Yadav government's abrupt decision to discontinue the public holiday on Kanshi Ram's death anniversary. "The actual turnout
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of people for the rally is going to far exceed our estimates as the common BSP supporter has been badly provoked on account of the disrespect shown to the party founder by the Samajwadi Party government," observed state BSP chief Swani Prasad Maurya.