UP CM Yogi Adityanath dials BSP chief Mayawati, wishes her on birthday

New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday wished former UP CM and BSP supremo Mayawati on her birthday.

Meanwhile, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati has asked partymen to celebrate her birthday on Friday with simplicity by extending help to the poor.

The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister’s birthday on January 15 is observed as ”Jankalyankari Day” by the BSP.

“As is known that tomorrow January 15, 2021 is my 65th birthday, which the people of the party should celebrate with complete simplicity, following all Covid protocol by helping the poor and helpless people hit by the pandemic as Jankalyankari Day,” the BSP supremo said in a tweet in Hindi, on Thursday.

She also said that the 16th volume of her book A Travelogue of My Struggle Ridden Life and BSP Movement, both in Hindi and English will be released on the occasion.

Mayawati was born 15 January 1956. She has served four separate terms as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. She is the national president of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which focuses on a platform of social change for Bahujans, more commonly known as Other Backward Castes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes as well as converted minorities from these castes. She was chief minister briefly in 1995 and again in 1997, then from 2002 to 2003 and from 2007 to 2012.