Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Tuesday called upon people to form the BSP government in Uttar Pradesh in 2027 for the empowerment of the weaker sections to lift them from poverty, unemployment, backwardness and to provide them livelihood, justice and self-respect.
Paying tribute to Dr BR Ambedkar on his birth anniversary in a programme organised at the party’s central camp office—9 Mall Avenue—Mayawati claimed: “Due to the dominance of feudal and casteist elements in power, the Constitution has failed to achieve its sacred objectives—welfare and empowerment of the weaker sections in society.”
“The people’s ability to endure sufferings does not mean that government should not fulfil its constitutional and legal responsibilities to uplift them from poverty and backwardness. The four-term BSP government in Uttar Pradesh worked on ‘Sarvajan Hitaya, Sarvajan Sukhaya’ (welfare for all) formula to bring deprived communities into the mainstream of the society,” she said.
“Social change and economic liberation for the weaker sections will be achieved after electoral success in the 2027 (UP) assembly election,” the BSP chief claimed.
“The BSP celebrates the birth anniversary of the Constitution’s architect, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar, with a missionary spirit every year. Other parties and the state government are also holding programmes to pay tribute to Ambedkar. It would have been appropriate had the government assessed the safety, respect and empowerment of the followers of Ambedkar. Only then will the vicious cycle of caste-based exploitation, oppression, and hatred perpetrated by the ruling party and the feudal lords against these communities would have been halted,” she said.
“Successive governments at the Centre ignored the people’s demand to confer Bharat Ratna on Ambedkar. After the rise of the political power of the ‘Bahujan Samaj’ and the formation of the BSP led to the victory of VP Singh’s coalition government at the Centre in 1989, the Bharat Ratna was awarded to Dr Ambedkar and the OBC community received 27% reservation in government jobs and education for the first time as recommended by the Mandal Commission,” Mayawati said.
The BSP leaders and workers from all 18 divisions of Uttar Pradesh, along with their families, visited the Bhimrao Samajik Parivartan Sthal constructed by the BSP government on the Gomti banks in Lucknow to pay homage to Dr Ambedkar. BSP state unit president Vishwanath Pal led the party leaders in the tribute paying programme at the memorial.
