Lucknow: A day after Mallikarjun Kharge was elected as the 3rd Dalit President of the Congress party, National President of Bahujan Samaj Party, and former Chief Minister of UP, Mayawati took a dig at the grand old party for making Dalits the “scapegoat” for its politics. In a tweet on Thursday, Mayawati said, “The history of Congress is a witness that they have always neglected/disdained the messiah of the downtrodden and downtrodden, Param Pujya Babasaheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar and his society”.
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“This party does not remember the safety and honor of Dalits in its good days, but makes them a scapegoat in bad days,” while referring to Kharge's election as Congress President. “That is, the Congress party remembers mostly non-Dalits in the long run of its good days and keeping Dalits ahead in the bad days out of power as in the present. Is this not deceit and pseudo-politics? People ask, is this the real love of the Congress towards Dalits?” she added.
A Dalit from Karnataka, 80-year-old Kharge trounced his 66-year-old rival Tharoor in a historic election, the sixth in the party's 137-year-old history. He will formally take over on October 26.
