Lucknow, Oct 7 (PTI) Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati on Tuesday hit out at the Samajwadi Party and the Congress, accusing them of adopting a “highly casteist and deceitful" approach towards BSP founder late Kanshi Ram while pretending to honour his legacy.

In a post on X, the BSP chief alleged that both the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Congress always displayed “deep caste bias and animosity" towards Kanshi Ram, who, she said, revived B R Ambedkar’s self-respect movement and worked to transform Dalits, tribals and other backward classes from the exploited to ruling sections of society.

Referring to SP chief Akhilesh Yadav’s announcement to hold a symposium on Kanshi Ram’s death anniversary on October 9, Mayawati called it “sheer hypocrisy", which reflected his “two-faced app

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