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Leader of Opposition successful the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, connected Friday (March 14, 2026) successful Lucknow, paid tribute to Kanshi Ram, the laminitis of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), describing the precocious person arsenic a combatant who struggled each his beingness for the equality and societal justness of marginalised communities.
Mr. Gandhi was addressing a ‘Samvidhan Sammelan’ programme organised astatine the Indira Gandhi Pratishthan up of the Kanshi Ram’s commencement anniversary. Mr. Gandhi accepted that the Congress was unsuccessful successful afloat discharging its responsibilities successful the past, which forced leaders similar Kanshi Ram to illustration their ain governmental path.
“Today we retrieve Kanshi Ram ji’s struggle, his vision, and his power connected Indian politics. I convey him wholeheartedly. We pledge to travel his way and combat for the issues of marginalised sections. If the Congress had functioned efficaciously astatine that time, Kanshi Ram would not person needed to wage a abstracted struggle,” helium said.
Mr. Gandhi alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is depriving the Dalit and different marginalised communities of their basal rights and attempting to centralise power. “Mr. Modi and the BJP Government are undermining the protections that were provided to mediocre radical of the state and attempting to centralise power. They (the BJP) are taking distant each the wealth of the state and giving it to selected industrialists,” said Mr. Gandhi.
The Congress person claimed that if his great-grandfather, India’s archetypal Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, had been live astatine the clip of Kanshi Ram’s rise, helium would person been made Chief Minister from the Congress. “If Jawaharlal Nehru were alive, past Kanshi Ram would person been a Chief Minister from the Congress,” helium said.
During the programme, a connection was besides passed demanding Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian honour, for Kanshi Ram. The Congress person urged radical to analyse the creation of the country’s bureaucracy, firm assemblage and apical absorption of companies, adding that Dalits, Adivasis, Other Backward Classes (OBCs), and different marginalised sections person small practice successful these structures. “In the contrary, if we spot the database of MGNREGA workers, radical from these communities are successful overwhelming numbers,” said Mr. Gandhi.
Further targeting the BJP government, the person of the Opposition alleged that the Prime Minister has compromised the vigor information of the country. “Narendra Modi has compromised the vigor information of the country, due to the fact that present America is deciding wherever we volition get lipid from. When I mentioned Epstein’s sanction successful Parliament, the Speaker stopped maine from speaking. Minister Hardeep Puri is already compromised. His sanction appears successful the Epstein files, and helium was a person of Epstein,” helium said.
Asserting that the Congress enactment takes inspiration from Mahatma Gandhi and B.R. Ambedkar, Mr. Gandhi added that the grand-old-party wants to empower the communal radical and marginalised. “This is the Congress party’s plan from Gandhi’s time, to empower the communal people. We privation to marque each Indian educated and supply them adjacent rights and opportunities,” helium said.
Congress leaders said the sojourn energised the enactment workers and marginalised communities, giving them information to combat for issues of these societal groups. “Mr. Gandhi spoke astir the imaginativeness of Kanshi Ram for the downtrodden sections, which is much applicable than ever, arsenic the contiguous authorities is doing injustice to radical of these communities done their policies,” said Anil Yadav, a elder U.P. Congress leader.
Mr. Gandhi’s sojourn earlier the commencement day of Kanshi Ram, which is on March 15, is seen arsenic an effort by Congress to mobilise Dalits successful Uttar Pradesh successful presumption of the upcoming Assembly polls successful the State slated aboriginal adjacent year. The Dalits represent astir 21% retired of the full electorate successful U.P. and considered important successful the State’s electoral calculus.
