Mayawati sacks BSP leader who jibed at Rahul's 'foreign blood'

BSP supremo Mayawati has sacked her party vice president Jai Prakash Singh who said Congress chief Rahul Gandhi cannot lead the country because of his "foreign blood".

"I came to know about BSP national coordinator Jai Prakash Singh's speech in which he spoke against ideology of BSP & also made personal remarks against leadership of rival parties. It's his personal opinion. So, he has been removed from his post with immediate effect," ANI quoted Mayawati as saying on Tuesday.

Singh was dismissed a day after he told a party gathering that Rahul would never succeed because he followed in the footsteps of his mother Sonia, "who is a foreigner".


"He will never succeed in Indian politics . The king will no longer be born from a queen. The next leader will come not from pet ( stomach) but from peti (ballot box)", Times of India quoted him as saying in Lucknow.

The new national vice president made these comments at a time the BSP was in talks with Congress in MP, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan going to polls later this year.