Mayawati breaks jinx, overcomes 'curse' of Noida

BITTER IRONY: It was a function in the family of her right hand man Satish Chandra Mishra.

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Lucknow/ Noida: Breaking a 20-year-old jinx, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati arriving in Noida, on the outskirts of the Capital to attend a marriage in bitter irony.

It was a function in the family of her right hand man Satish Chandra Mishra, a Brahmin, a community that Mayawati took great pride in bashing all these years.

It all started in 1988 when the then UP CM Vir Bahadur Singh was dethroned within days of coming to Noida for a function.

A year later, N D Tiwari suffered the same fate.

The jinx continued with Mulayam Singh Yadav in 1995. He came to Noida to inaugurate a power plant, only to lose the elections immediately thereafter.

However, his party spokesperson, Rakesh Chaudhary, says, “Mulayam Singh Yadav does not believe in such things himself.”

Mayawati too became a casualty in 1997 and it continued till Kalyan Singh in 1999.

“After a few coincidences such myths are formed and then people start linking an issue to it,” says Akhilesh Pratap Singh, Congress spoksperson.

The fear of the curse forced Mulayam Singh Yadav also to refrain from visiting Nithari.

Most of the CMs of UP have consciously avoided even traveling via Noida and preferred flying to the Capital. Hopefully, the jinx is over now.

(With inputs from Abhisheek Patni)