Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati asserted that only political power can bring “good days” for the Bahujans while addressing a state-level special meeting of the party’s OBC officials in Lucknow on Tuesday.
Rakesh Kumar Gautam and advocate Vinay Kashyap have been appointed as convenors of the party’s OBC organization in Lucknow.
Mayawati said that the Bahujan community, particularly OBCs, has been severely affected by caste-based and narrow-minded politics.
She alleged that, like Dalits, OBCs have been deprived of their Constitutional reservation benefits due to new policies that have rendered quotas ineffective.
Mayawati called for a renewed and intensified campaign to unite all sections and secure political power to end social discrimination.
“To free themselves from humiliation, all sections of the Bahujan community must unite and strengthen their political power. We must start a new and aggressive campaign at the village level to expose the anti-Dalit and anti-OBC agendas of Congress, BJP, and SP,” she said.
“Defeating casteist parties like BJP, Congress, and SP and securing political power is the only effective way for Bahujans to bring their ‘achche din’ (good days),” she emphasized at the meeting.
During the meeting, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati highlighted the developmental work carried out during her four terms in office. She also recalled that in 2011, her government had written to then-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, advocating for a caste-based census.
She said OBCs had always been divided and marginalized until the implementation of the Mandal Commission recommendations, highlighting that it was the BSP that helped them secure their Constitutional right to reservation.
“The historic work done by BSP at the party and government level has given new power and strength to the ‘Social Change and Economic Liberation Movement’ in the country.”
“In 2012, casteist parties worked together to remove BSP from power in Uttar Pradesh. Since then, Dalits and OBCs have suffered under successive governments, and their condition has only worsened,” she alleged.
“Opposition parties have created small caste-based parties and organizations to divide and weaken Bahujan unity. While some leaders of these outfits fulfill their personal and family interests, their communities remain deprived. Only under BSP’s banner can the entire community’s interests be safeguarded,” she asserted.
She alleged that all major political parties—including Congress, BJP, and SP—were equally responsible for misleading and exploiting Dalits and OBCs, stating they are “birds of the same flock.”
“In the Gandhian Congress, RSSist BJP, and SP and their PDA, which people call the Parivar Development Authority, the interests of crores of Bahujans, especially those of the OBC community, were never safe and cannot be safe in the future.”
“These parties deceive Dalits and OBCs with sweet words and false promises. But they will never truly work for their upliftment. The sooner people understand this and take control of their destiny, the better,” she said.
Mayawati further directed party members to hold district-level discussions across the country on April 14, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’s birth anniversary, while announcing that BSP leaders would pay tribute by garlanding his statues in Lucknow and Noida.
