Kanshi Ram

Kanshi Ram (Hindi: कांशीराम, Kānśīrām; born March 15, 1934 in Khawapur, Punjab, † October 9, 2006 in New Delhi ) was an Indian politician and founder of the Bahujan Samaj Party.

Biography

Kanshiram came from a village in Ropar district panjabischen and belonged to the Dalits. Nevertheless After school he studied at the State College of Ropar, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Science ( B.Sc.). Due to a quota system, he received a job in the organization Defence Research and Development in Khadki office. During this time he joined in 1965 a group of government employees with Dalitherkunft at that sat against the banning of a commemoration of the birthday of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, the leader of the Dalits, to fight back.

In 1973, he was the founder of the All India Backward and Minority Communities Employees' Federation ( BAMCEF ), a non- political and non-religious organization for the protection of minorities, the newly founded on 6 December 1978, the birthday of BR Ambedkar. Later, he was also the founder of another social organization, called the DS4. In 1981, he began with the unification of the Dalit and put it in 1984 as founder of the Bahujan Samaj Party continues.

In April 1996, became a member of the eleventh Lok Sabha, the lower house of Indian parliament, elected, where he represented the interests of the constituency of Hoshiarpur for one term. In the ensuing Lok Sabha from 1998 to 1999 he was representative of the constituency of Etawah ( Uttar Pradesh ). In 2001, he publicly named the current Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati, as his successor. In 2004 he retired due to multiple diseases from public life.

Publications

• " An Era of the Stooges "
• " New Hope "