Mayawati asks BSP leaders to donate a month's salary

Lucknow: BSP supremo Mayawati today asked her party MPs and MLAs that instead of donating to the government, they should give as relief their one month salary directly to farmers affected by recent unseasonal rains and hailstorm in their respective constituencies.

"The farmers are going through a bad phase due to unexpected rain and hailstorm, but despite reports of suicides the Centre and the Uttar Pradesh government were involved only in paperwork," Mayawati alleged in a statement here.