Mayawati was attacked by Mulayam Singh Yadav's goons inside the Meerabai Guesthouse in Lucknow in June 1995. BJP leader Brahmadautt Dwivedi had risked his own life to rescue Mayawati.
UP police, who raided the house of BSP UP president Munkad Ali after learning that his brother Sajid Ali was involved in an incident of firing, found him missing from the residence.