A large gathering in Lucknow marked Ambedkar Jayanti alongside Mayawati.

In a post on X, the BSP chief highlighted Dr BR Ambedkar’s role in uplifting the Bahujan Samaj and praised him for embedding the principles of equality in the Indian Constitution.

She wrote, “In our India country with its vast population, the ‘Bahujan Samaj’–that is, the messiah of the Bahujans–Bharat Ratna Bodhisattva, the most revered Baba Saheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar–today, on his birth anniversary, I offer my profound salutations, floral tributes, and boundless flowers of reverence in the morning, and along with that, heartfelt thanks, gratitude, and appreciation to all the people of the BSP who, across the entire country, along with their families, pay him deeply emotional tributes and flowers of reverence with complete missionary spirit.”

“It is well known that the entire life of Baba Saheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar was spent in extremely arduous struggles for the protection, respect, and upliftment of the ‘Bahujan Samaj,’ including the country’s poor, the neglected, the exploited, and women afflicted by casteism and feudalism, and ultimately, he accomplished the historic task of ensuring its guarantee in the Constitution, becoming immortal, and for which the nation will always remain grateful to him,” the post continued.

Referring to the BSP’s foundation for the advancement of the Bahujan Samaj-which includes the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes, and religious minorities-Mayawati criticised other parties, claiming they failed to fulfil Dr Ambedkar’s objectives despite being in power.

Addressing the run-up to the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, she stated, “But alas, if only the parties in power at the centre and in the states here could properly succeed in achieving the sacred objectives of Baba Saheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar’s supremely humanitarian, all-people-serving, and Bahujan-welfare-oriented Constitution, then India would by now have become a self-reliant/Atmanirbhar and developed nation, certainly able to provide the crores of Bahujans here with lives of equality and justice, free from immense poverty, unemployment, casteist hatred, exploitation, and oppression and atrocities, etc.”

“If this has not been possible, then why? Upon seeking the answer to this, the caravan of Baba Saheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar’s ‘social transformation and economic liberation’ in the country will surely advance toward its goal, even achieving electoral success. Jai Bhim, Jai Bharat,” she added.

Baba Saheb Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar was born on April 14, 1891, in Mhow, Madhya Pradesh. His life was marked by struggles, with the primary barrier being the caste system that designated his family as ‘untouchable’.

Through education, he led a movement against untouchability, including the 1927 Mahad March at the Chowdar Tank in Colaba to assert untouchables’ right to draw water from the public tank. On September 24, 1932, Dr Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi agreed to the Poona Pact, which provided reservations for untouchables in government employment and legislative assemblies.

His most significant contribution remains the Constitution of India, for which he served as Chairman of the Drafting Committee. He established principles ensuring social justice for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and other backward classes.