24 Facts About Mayawati

Kumari Mayawati was born on 15 January 1956 and is an Indian politician who served four separate terms as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.

Mayawati was chief minister briefly in 1995 and again in 1997, then from 2002 to 2003 and from 2007 to 2012.

In 1993 Kanshi Ram formed a coalition with the Samajwadi Party and Mayawati became the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 1995.

Mayawati was born on 15 January 1956 at Shrimati Sucheta Kriplani Hospital, New Delhi into a Dalit family of Jatav caste.

Mayawati was working as a teacher in Inderpuri JJ Colony, Delhi, and studying for the Indian Administrative Services exams, when Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes and Other backward castes politician Kanshi Ram visited her family home in 1977.

Mayawati was first elected to the Rajya Sabha of Uttar Pradesh in 1994.

Mayawati won election to the Lok Sabha in two different constituencies in 1996 and chose to serve for Harora.

Mayawati became Chief Minister again for a short period in 1997 and then from 2002 to 2003 in coalition with the Bharatiya Janata Party.

Mayawati was elected national president of the BSP for her first term on 18 September 2003.

Mayawati was elected unopposed for a second consecutive term on 27 August 2006, for a third term on 30 August 2014 and for fourth term on 28 August 2019.

Mayawati first served as Chief Minister from 3 June 1995 to 18 October 1995 with support of BJP.

Mayawati was sworn in as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for the fourth time on 13 May 2007.

On 10 August 2007, the Mayawati government proposed 30 per cent reservation in jobs in the private sector.

In 2008, Mayawati launched, Manyawar Shri Kanshiram Ji Shahri Garib Awas Yojna, a scheme for building low-cost housing colonies for urban poor with 90,000 low-cost homes under the first round of construction in different towns and cities across the state while a second and a third round were still underway when government ended in 2012 and next government scrapped the scheme including cutting down electricity of these colonies.

Mayawati government started efforts to set up solar power plants and the first 5 MW solar power plant located in Naini of Allahabad district started functioning in March 2012 and was developed by EMC Limited.

In November 2009, Mayawati dedicated Noida Metro constructed at the cost of 557 crore.

Under Savitri Bai Phule Balika Shiksha Madad Yojna, Mayawati distributed over 10 lakh bicycles among Muslim and poor school girls from 2008 to 2011.

Finally on 15 November 2011, Mayawati's cabinet approved partitioning Uttar Pradesh into four different states for better administration and governance.

On 6 March 2012 the Bahujan Samaj Party lost its majority to the Samajwadi Party and Mayawati tendered her resignation to the governor of Uttar Pradesh the next day, thereby becoming the first CM to complete five full years in office.

On 3 August 2011 the Delhi High court dismissed the central government's appeal against Mayawati, stating that "she has fully discharged her obligations by disclosing the identities of all of her donors, the gifts had been donated by her supporters".

On 13 March 2012 Mayawati revealed assets worth 111.26 crore in an affidavit filed with her nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha.

In February 2010 Mayawati's government approved a plan for a special police force to protect the statues, as she feared that her political opponents might demolish them.

At Kanshi Ram's funeral ceremonies in 2006, Mayawati stated that both Kanshi Ram and herself had been, and she would continue to be, observant of Buddhist traditions and customs.

Mayawati appeared in Newsweeks top woman achievers list in 2007.