Money matters but may not have mattered much behind Maya move

In addition to money- matter, poor support to the party by the Muslim community during the recent assembly election in the state may be a reason. Siddiqui was the Muslim face of the BSP and she might have pinned all her hopes of return to power on this community and on him, in particular. He became an easy prey because she had some other complaints against him.

She had offered the highest number of seats to the community in recent assembly polls, making a departure from the past. In all other elections in the state she had mainly depended on members of her Dalit community. But since her party had not done well in 2012 assembly and 2014 Lok Sabha elections, she wanted to make a new experiment and allotted more seats to Muslims than Dalit to achieve a better result.

It was reasonable for her in this situation to depend heavily on him. He was her trusted lieutenant and an old timer. She had no other members of the community in the party she could rely on. But he did not come up to her expectation and failed to deliver.

The other consideration could be the realisation that the experiment is not worth trying again and that she should go back to her traditional supporters-- Dalits

Due to her preference for Muslims in recent polls, these traditional voters too had largely deserted her in recent elections resulting in a big loss to the party. From 80 seats in previous polls ,the party's strength in the assembly was reduced to 19 this time.

What was more, out of the total 84 reserved seats for scheduled castes ( Dalits), the party could bag only two-- Sidhauli and Lalganj -- that too with small margins.

In Sidhauli, for instance, her party candidate got only 2510 votes more than his nearest rival. The other seat was won by a lesser margin.

The Dalits who constitute nearly 22 per cent of the total population used to go solidly behind her in the past, before the new experiment was made.

On the other hand, only a small percentage of Muslims who were preferred in this year's elections voted in her favour. The result was that out of the 100 seats provided to the community only six were bagged by the party.

Her decision, therefore, to go back to her old constituency, in the circumstances, is not illogical. In months to come she may depend more on members of her own community . A beginning has been already made by appointing brother Anand Kumar as vice-president.

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