Overview
- The Lucknow seminar, held Saturday on the eve of Jagjivan Ram’s 118th birth anniversary, featured his daughter Meira Kumar as chief guest at the UP Congress office.
- Congress is now centering Jagjivan Ram, a former Defence and Agriculture minister tied to the Green Revolution, after earlier invoking BSP founder Kanshi Ram.
- Meira Kumar said India still needs urgent social justice and called casteism the core illness, pointing to separate handpumps and marriage halls in villages.
- The party is running Constitution-themed Samvidhan Sammelans across Uttar Pradesh, with Rahul Gandhi and AICC leader Avinash Pandey speaking on rights and equality.
- Dalit and OBC voters are pivotal in UP, and party leaders frame this legacy drive as groundwork to consolidate support against the BJP before the 2027 Assembly race.