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Gandhi said Kanshi Ram had transformed the nature of Indian politics. (File Photo)

Rahul Gandhi demands Bharat Ratna for Kanshi Ram. A look at Congress's fresh bid to woo Dalit voters ahead of 2027 UP polls

March 15, 2026 5:21 pm

As Congress eyes the 20% Dalit electorate in Uttar Pradesh ahead of the elections, Rahul Gandhi’s pitch to confer the nation’s highest civilian award on Kanshi Ram intensifies the battle for Bahujan icons.

Agents of their own liberation: Why Kanshi Ram’s blueprint still disrupts India’s political status quo

March 15, 2026 3:38 pm

He exemplified the most distinctive model of emancipatory politics in post-Independence India

‘Kiske Kanshi Ram?’: UP parties vie for BSP founder’s legacy as 2027 polls loom

March 15, 2026 12:38 pm

Ahead of Kanshi Ram's birth anniversary on March 15, Congress seeks to invoke BSP founder to reclaim lost Dalit support base, SP pushes his ideology through its PDA plank.

Rahul Gandhi to attend Kanshi Ram event in Lucknow on March 13: What's behind the Congress leader's move?

March 11, 2026 11:49 am

Party functionaries said several prominent Dalit thinkers and community leaders have been invited to participate in the discussion

Kanshi Ram's legacy endures, but critical question is how will BSP reclaim its disruptive potential

October 09, 2025 10:34 pm

His ideas have been appropriated, often diluted, for electoral arithmetic. But they still speak to a deeper moral conception of democracy

In death, Kanshi Ram ‘belongs to all’: Mayawati rally has to contend with SP, Congress plans

October 09, 2025 4:31 am

BSP chief plans a rare mega meeting not timed to immediate elections, to mark Kanshi Ram’s death anniversary; accuses SP, Congress of “pretending” to honour his legacy

Personal ties don’t matter for party, Bahujan interest primary: Mayawati

February 17, 2025 2:05 am

Regarding her statement about her successor, a senior party functionary said, “Behan ji’s statement about her successor in the party is being seen as a message for Akash Anand ji"

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Aazad campaigning in Uttar Pradesh's Domariyaganj constituency. (Photo: Chandrashekhar Aazad/ X)

‘Kanshi Ram’s real successor is Chandrashekhar Aazad who will complete Mayawati’s unfinished work’: Bhim Army chief

June 10, 2024 2:15 am

'If we had contested all UP seats, then on those that the Opposition won by less than 1 lakh votes, it would have lost. We convinced people to vote for INDIA alliance to save the Constitution,' Aazad tells The Indian Express

After SP, Cong invoke Kanshi Ram, UP BJP embarks on another Dalit outreach today

October 17, 2023 8:22 am

CM Adityanath to flag off Dalit Varga Sammelans, to be held across state; all parties eye the SC vote in state, seen as flexible following erosion of BSP.

Delhi News Highlights: HC commutes Batla House convict Ariz Khan's death penalty to life imprisonment

October 12, 2023 10:47 pm

Delhi News Highlights: The court partly allowed Arif Khan’s appeal against the judgment of conviction and order on sentence awarding him death penalty.