BJP and other parties who do not respect Ambedkar are birds of the same flock: Mayawati

Lucknow. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati, while targeting the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and opposition parties, said that all of them are “birds of the same flock in the matter of disrespecting Baba Saheb Dr. Ambedkar”. In a series of posts on the social media platform X, Mayawati said, “The words used by BJP’s Shri Amit Shah in Parliament about the savior of Dalits and other neglected classes, Param Pujya Baba Saheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar, have deeply hurt the sentiments of these classes. In such a situation, he should definitely repent by taking back those words.” This statement of the former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh has come amid the ongoing tussle between the ruling BJP and opposition parties over the remarks made by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Ambedkar in the Rajya Sabha earlier this week. She said that it is impossible to deny that the conduct, character and face of the Congress, BJP and their allies have always been narrow-minded and casteist towards the interests and welfare of Baba Saheb Dr. Ambedkar and his crores of Dalit-backward, exploited-oppressed followers and this is the reason why the social, economic and political conditions of these communities have continuously worsened. Mayawati also wrote that these parties are birds of the same feather in not respecting Baba Saheb Dr. Ambedkar from the heart, committing injustice and atrocities against his followers and snatching away their constitutional and legal rights instead of giving them them. She said, “The ongoing conflict between the ruling party and the opposition over this is only the politics of vote-bank politics.” The BSP chief termed the waving of the Constitution at various places and wearing blue colour etc. as cheap politics of show-off and said that before doing all this, both the ruling party and the opposition will have to become clean by erasing the stain of narrow-mindedness, casteism and hatred from their hearts, only then will the welfare of these classes and the country be possible.