Overview

• In an Oct. 7 post on X, Mayawati said the SP and Congress have shown deep caste bias toward Kanshi Ram and called their public remembrance deceitful.
• She termed Akhilesh Yadav’s plan for a Oct. 9 symposium on Kanshi Ram “sheer hypocrisy” and alleged the SP worked to weaken the BSP during Kanshi Ram’s lifetime.
• She cited the SP government’s renaming of Kanshiram Nagar to Kasganj and changes to institutions named after him as evidence of an anti-Dalit mindset, and recalled no official mourning in 2006.
• The BSP plans a large memorial rally in Lucknow on Oct. 9, and police officials conducted a site security inspection on Oct. 6.
• The Statesman reports she is set to publicly introduce her nephew Akash Anand at the rally, and no responses from the SP or Congress were reported in the coverage.