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Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Monday recalled the infamous 1995 Lucknow 'state guest house incident' to attack the Samajwadi Party for the ‘deadly assault’ on her, and the Congress for not coming to her help despite being in power at the Centre at that time.

Taking to X, formerly Twitter, the BSP supremo said, "The SP had carried out a deadly attack on me on June 2, 1995, after the BSP withdrew its support, then why does Congress never speak on this? The Congress government at the Centre during that time also did not fulfil its responsibility on time," Mayawati said.

“Even when Kanshi Ram ji was in a serious condition and hospitalised, the home minister had to be reprimanded and the opposition also gheraoed the Parliament, only after that did the Congress government take action," she said in Hindi.

"Because at that time the central Congress government's intentions had also become bad, which after some untoward incident wanted to run its government from behind the scenes by imposing president's rule in Uttar Pradesh, whose conspiracy was foiled by BSP," she further said.

This comes three days after Mayawati expressed her gratitude to Akhilesh Yadav for his stance on the ‘objectionable comments’ made by a BJP MLA against her during a TV debate.

1995 Guest House Incident

In a dramatic event that unfolded on June 2, 1995, BSP chief Mayawati announced her decision to withdraw support from the Mulayam Singh Yadav government. As Mayawati arrived at a guest house in Lucknow for a scheduled meeting with her party leaders, Samajwadi Party (SP) workers and leaders reportedly descended upon the venue, resulting in a violent attack on her.

Mayawati was rescued by the BJP leaders. Following the incident, the governor sacked the Mulayam Singh Yadav dispensation and invited Mayawati to form the government.

The incident left a lasting scar on the relations between the two parties, which remained strained for years. Despite the incident, a notable shift occurred in the lead-up to the 2019 Lok Sabha elections when the SP and BSP set aside their differences and formed a brief electoral alliance.