Biography of Mayawati - Uttar Pradesh

·         Mayawati full name: Mayawati Prabhu Das.

·         Mayawati was born on 15 January 1956 at Shrimati Sucheta Kriplani Hospital, New Delhi in a Hindu Dalit family.

·          Her father, Prabhu Das, was a post office employee at Badalpur- Gautam Buddha Nagar. 

·         The sons in the family were sent to private schools, while the daughters went to low-performing government schools.

·         Mayawati studied for her B.A. in 1975 at the kalindi College and obtained her LLB from the Campus Law Centre, part of the University of Delhi.

·          She completed a B.ED from VMLG College- Ghaziabad in 1976

·         She was working as a teacher in Inderpuri JJ Colony, Delhi, and studying for the Indian Administrative Service exams, when Dalit politician kashi Ram visited her family home in 1977.

·         According to biographer Ajoy Bose, Ram told her: "I can make you such a big leader one day that not one but a whole row of IAS officers will line up for your orders.

·         In 1983, Mayawati was awarded her LL.B from DU. Impressed by her speaking skills and ideas, Kanshi Ram included her as a member of his team when he founded the BSP in 1984. Mayawati was first elected to Parliament in 1989.

·         She served four terms as the  CM of UP.

·         She is the national president of the BSP, which focuses on a platform of social change to improve the lives of the weakest strata of Indian society the Bahujans or Dalits, OBC, and religious minorities.

·         She was Chief Minister briefly in 1995 and again in 1997, then from 2002 to 2003 and from 2007 to 2012. Mayawati's rise from humble beginnings has been called a "miracle of democracy" by P.V Narshima Rao former Prime Minister of India.

·          In 1993 kanshi ram formed a coalition with the Samajwadi Party and Mayawati became the youngest Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 1995.

·         She was the first female Dalit Chief Minister in India. In 1997 and in 2002 she was Chief Minister in outside support of the BJP, the second time only for a year up to 26 August 2003 due to BJP withdrawing support.

·         Mayawati's tenure has attracted praise and controversy. Millions of dalits view her as an icon, and refer to her as Behen-ji.

·          In 2008, Forbes added Mayawati in the 59th place on its list of the 100 most powerful women in the worldAfter losing the 2012 legislative assembly elections to the rival Samajwadi Party.

·          She resigned from her post as party leader on 7 March 2012. Later that month she was elected by acclamation to a seat in the Rajya Sabha.

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