Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leaders and workers paid rich tributes to party's founder late Kanshi Ram on his 81st birth anniversary here on Sunday. The BSP leaders and supporters thronged the Manyawar Kanshi Ram Samarak to pay the dalit champion their floral tribute. On the occasion the leaders also remembered the achievements of Kanshi Ram and his contribution for the uplift of the dalits and other backward castes.
Party workers from across the state reached the state capital to visit Kanshi Ram Samarak. Addressing them party’s national general secretary Swamy Prasad Maurya said that where dalits have reached today it is only because of Kanshi Ram. “He worked for downtrodden. He wanted every people to get education and thus fought for their rights. He awakened the dalits. He informed them about their rights and duties. He paved the way for dalits to grab political power,” he said.
Maurya said Kanshi Ram had started the social crusade. His mantra was to financially empower the dalits by educating them of Bahujan Samaj. “In his memory the BSP government had started many programmes but it is unfortunate that present government disbanded all of them,” he said. BSP president Mayawati paid her tribute to Kanshi Ram in a function held in New Delhi.