Mayawati’s Dalit icon status rests on thin ice

When Mayawati, the champion of those at the bottom of India’s caste hierarchy, won the 2007 Uttar Pradesh polls by melding support from both sides of the caste divide, she had the country stunned. Now, six years later, the Bahujan Samaj Party chief should be worried as she heads into a national election she feels could make her the prime minister.

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