Chitti Babu is critical of Dalit intellectual Anand Teltumbde’s characterisation of Mayawati’s victory as a ‘counter-revolution’. Teltumbde says:

Social revolution, which is transformation of basic caste or class relations,cannot come through the first-past-the- post type of elections we adopted. While election victories in India do not need even a passive affirmation of majority of people, social revolution needs their active participation. [...] Sarvajan smacks of samarasata of sangh Parivar. As such, when BSP claims to have become a party of sarvajan, it is admitting that it has not onlybecome a ruling class party, it is also a ruling caste party.