Mayawati urges Dalit leaders to break ties with Congress, ‘casteist parties’ ahead of Haryana polls

In a bid of posts connected X, the erstwhile Uttar Pradesh main curate accused the Congress and different “casteist parties” of utilizing Dalit leaders lone successful times of occupation and aboriginal marginalising them.

She said successful Hindi, “The governmental developments successful the state truthful acold person proven that the Congress and different casteist parties lone retrieve Dalits during their atrocious days and name them arsenic main ministers oregon to different cardinal organisational positions temporarily.” “But successful their bully days, these parties mostly sideline Dalits and regenerate them with casteist individuals, arsenic is presently being witnessed successful Haryana,” she added.

Mayawati besides called connected Dalit leaders to instrumentality inspiration from Ambedkar and region themselves from specified parties.

“These humiliated Dalit leaders should beryllium inspired by their messiah, Baba Saheb Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, and detach themselves from these parties. They should besides enactment to support their communities distant from these parties,” she said.

Drawing a parallel with Ambedkar’s resignation from the cardinal government, Mayawati invoked her ain determination to resign from the Rajya Sabha successful 2017 implicit the unit against Dalits successful Saharanpur.

“Baba Saheb Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar resigned from the station of Union instrumentality curate for the involvement of self-respect and dignity of the weaker sections. Inspired by him, I besides resigned from the Rajya Sabha erstwhile I wasn’t allowed to talk connected the atrocities against Dalits successful Saharanpur. Hence, I counsel Dalits to travel successful his footsteps,” she said.

Mayawati besides accused the Congress of being “historically opposed” to preservation for Dalits and different backward communities.

Targeting Leader of Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, she said, “The Congress and different casteist parties person ever been against reservation. Rahul Gandhi adjacent went overseas and announced the volition to abolish reservation. People should stay cautious of specified anti-Constitution, anti-reservation, and anti-SC, ST, OBC parties.”