Mayawati was unanimously re-elected as the national president of the BSP on Tuesday, with the party remaining optimistic despite recent electoral challenges, according to a statement.
This decision came during a special meeting of the BSP Central Executive Committee (CEC), which included senior office bearers from national and state levels, as well as representatives from across the country.
Mayawati, aged 68 and a four-time chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, has held the party’s leadership since 2003, following her designation as the political successor by BSP founder Kanshi Ram over two decades ago.
Addressing party workers on Tuesday, Mayawati assured her followers that she is prepared to make any sacrifice to further the humanitarian mission of “great people,” particularly those from Dalit, Adivasi, and OBC communities, through the BSP movement, according to the party’s statement.
Just two days earlier, Mayawati had declared on social media that her retirement from active politics was “out of the question.” Back in 2018, she had famously told party workers in Lucknow that she would remain the party’s president for the next 20 years, or until she was too old for the role.
Mayawati also emphasised that the movement for self-respect and dignity, initiated by Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar for bahujans, is advancing steadily and has grown so strong that nothing can divert it from its path.
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“Moreover, despite electoral reverses, the BSP is not disappointed. It is stoutly pursuing the goal and welfare principle of ‘Bahujan Hitaye and Bahujan Sukhaye’ (progress and prosperity of bahujans) on the strength of the bahujan samaj of all the exploited, oppressed poor and toiling masses,” she said.
Taking a jab at the two national parties BJP and Congress, Mayawati said that neither of the them are “genuine well-wishers” of minorities and backward communities in the country.
She argued that just as the country’s politics once revolved around anti-Congress sentiments, it is now caught up in anti-BJPism. However, she alleged that both parties and their alliances have never truly supported bahujans, Dalits, Adivasis, OBCs, Muslims, or other religious minorities, nor will they ever do so, because their outlook towards these communities remains narrow, casteist, and communal.
Mayawati further stated that this is why, despite both parties holding power for the majority of time, there has been no meaningful improvement in the condition of bahujans, and social disparities have only worsened under their rule.