Kanshi Ram redefined Dalit awareness: Mayawati
Special Correspondent
Birth anniversary celebrations held in all 72 UP districts
Photo: Subir Roy
MENTOR'S DAY: Chief Minister Mayawati paying tributes to her mentor,
Bahujan Samaj Party founder Kanshi Ram, in Lucknow on Tuesday.
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Tuesday credited
Bahujan Samaj Party founder Kanshi Ram with redefining Dalit awareness
and giving them a powerful voice, which had forever changed the
political spectrum of the country.
"The creation of a new Dalit identity has altered the old and
exploitative political equations. It was Kanshi Ram who not only
organised the Bahujan samaj but also made them aware of their
political might and enabled them to capture power," Ms. Mayawati said
in a statement issued on the occasion of the 77 {+t} {+h} birth
anniversary of the BSP founder.
Paying tributes to Kanshi Ram, the Chief Minister said a new direction
was given to the movement for social change by him. He devoted his
life for the uplift of the Dalits, backwards and the deprived
sections.
According to her, after the demise of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar the
bahujan movement had begun to falter, but Kanshi Ram ensured that the
objective was achieved. The Uttar Pradesh Government is committed to
ushering in a "samtamoolak samaj" (society based on equality) as was
desired by Dr. Ambedkar and Kanshi Ram, she said.
The Chief Minister mentioned the welfare schemes, memorials, parks,
hospitals, educational institutions, projects and awards named after
him (numbering 21).
Unlike in the past, she neither announced new schemes nor addressed a
public rally. With the Assembly elections to be held in 2012, the
birth anniversary celebrations were held in all 72 districts.
Ms. Mayawati went to the Bahujan Prerna Sthal near the Lal Bahadur
Shastri Annexe Bhavan where she paid floral tributes to the BSP
founder.
From there, she went to the Kanshi Ram Memorial on VIP Road where she
paid floral tributes and garlanded his statue.
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