Mayawati at a Brahmin sammelan at Ramabai rally sthal in Lucknow.
When Mayawati came to power in 2007, she built the 76-acre Ramabai Rally Sthal in Lucknow to accommodate a crowd of five lakh. She has held six rallies here for her party cadre, three of them in the last two months. She is the only leader to have done so in such a sprawling space. Each of her three recent rallies has focused on a particular community. On November 13, she held a Brahmin Sammelan where Satish Chandra Misra, the BSP's Brahmin face, described Mayawati as "kanoon ki devi". A fortnight later, she addressed a rally for the party's Scheduled Castes and backward class workers. BSP state President Swami Prasad Maurya shared the dais with her. On December 18, it was the turn of the Muslim votebank, for whom she paraded BSP leader Naseemuddin Siddiqui.
