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Bahujan Samaj Party founder Kanshi Ram died in New Delhi early on Monday due to complications arising out of multiple ailments he had been suffering for quite some time.
Kanshi Ram, a bachelor, was an enigma in Indian politics, and some considered him to be the true inheritor to B R Ambedkar's political legacy.
Here is a primer on how Kanshi was responsible for pitchforking Dalits to the centre of Uttar Pradesh politics, leading to the decline of national parties like Congress:
Who is Kanshi Ram?
Kanshi Ram was born in 1934 in a community of Punjabi Chamars.
He was given a reserved position in the Survey of India after completing his BSc degree, and in 1958 he transferred to the Department of Defence Production as a scientific assistant in a munitions factory in Poona.
He was slowly sucked into activism as he stood up for those who were denied their rightful place in the government set up.
He then launched a political party espousing the Dalit cause and capitalized on the Congresss slump in Utttar Pradesh.
How did he enter politics?
Kanshi first launched an organi
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Kanshi Ram
Indian politician and social reformer (1934-2006)
Kanshi Ram (15 March 1934 – 9 October 2006), also known as Bahujan Nayak[1] or Manyavar, Sahab Kanshiram[2][3] was an Indian politician and social reformer who worked for the upliftment and political mobilisation of the Bahujans, the backward or lower caste people including untouchable groups at the bottom of the caste system in India.[4] Towards this end, Kanshi Ram founded Dalit Shoshit Samaj Sangharsh Samiti (DS-4), the All India Backwards (SC/ST/OBC) and Minorities Communities Employees' Federation (BAMCEF) in 1971 and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in 1984. He ceded leadership of the BSP to his protégé Mayawati who has served four terms as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
Early life
Kanshi Ram was born on 15 March 1934 into a Ramdasia Sikh family of Chamar caste in Pirthipur Bunga village, near Khawaspur, Ropar district,[a]Punjab, British India.[5] Significantly, he was not subjected to much social discrimination during his childhood or yout
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Book Review | Kanshiram: Leader Of The Dalits
Kanshiram: Leader Of The Dalits | Badri Narayan
A man of the people
Badri Narayan’s biography of Kanshiram, Dalit “prophet” and founder of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), could not have come at a better time. Three decades after it was formed, the party finds itself in its deepest crisis yet.
Indeed, this is the first time that the BSP has drawn a blank in a Lok Sabha poll. This crushing humiliation of the party and its leader Mayawati, coming as it does after a series of setbacks in assembly polls across north India ever since the BSP lost power in Uttar Pradesh two years ago, does raise serious questions about the future of this amazing political project launched by Kanshiram.
As Mayawati goes back to the drawing board to find a strategy to resurrect the flagging fortunes of her party, she would do well to remember her early days of tutelage at the feet of Kanshiram. In Kanshiram: Leader Of The Dalits, Narayan recounts the indefatigable perambulations of the Dalit leader across north and central India to assemble th
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