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.
Despite desperate attempts, BSP has in the last two decades never been able to make a mark in Maharashtra, neither in the Lok Sabha nor in the state Legislative Assembly level
The Dalit woman was gang-raped by a group of men on April 26 and her family had approached the police to lodge an FIR on April 30. The Alwar police had allegedly put off filing an FIR keeping the elections on 6th April in mind.