By following this very thinking of
Parampujya Bab Saheb Dr.Bhimrao Ambedkar,
our party is contesting these general elections
to 16th Lok Sabha on all the seats in most of
the states of the country with full preparation
on its own, in other words, our party has not in
this Lok Sabha elections entered into
any electoral alliance or understanding of
any kind with any party.

    But now the main question that arises
here is why is it necessary for the general public
of the country not to vote for the “Congress”
and the “BJP” and their allies, but to vote only
for the “BSP” and strengthen this party of theirs
all over the country? This main and essential
thing will have to be understood carefully.

    In this regard, it is our conviction that
the BSP is the only political party in the country
the “ideology, principles and policies” besides
“work style” of which are in the greater interest
of and for the full welfare of Sarva Samaj,
in other words, the people of all the religions
and all castes; and, at the same time, it does
well within time  whatever it says in the interest
of and for the welfare of the Sarva Samaj (all
sections of society), whereas other political
parties give a lot of assurances and do very
little work to translate them into realities, in
other words, most of their work is confined to
planning on paper and is seldom seen or is at
the best seen incomplete at the ground level, a
proper benefit of which is not able to reach the
common people in a right manner.

    This is the main reason why as a result
of wrong policies of the government of the
parties having a cattiest mindset no significant
change has come about even now, 66 years
after independence in “social, educational and
economic” condition of the ” Bahujan Samaj”,
which comprises the Scheduled Castes (SCs),
Scheduled Tribes (STs), other backward classes
(OBCs) and the people of different communities
and religions like the Sikhs, Muslims, Christians,
Parsis and Buddhists etc., belonging to the
religious minority society, whose population is
altogether about 85 percent of the country.

    And, I have spoken about wrong policies
of the governments of these opposition parties
here because in our country, in the centre and
most of the states, governments of whichever
parties have been formed till date have been
mostly formed with financial assistance of big
capitalists and super-rich (dhannaseth) , because
of which these parties after coming to power,
frame each and every “economic policy” of their
respective government in accordance with the
interests of those very super-rich, in other words;
they do not frame their economic policies with a
view to removing sufferings and hardships of
the poor and the general public here.

    Thus all these opposition parties,
despite maintaining their separate identities ,
foster and promote only a particular kind of
belief that is bases on “pro-capitalist” and they
have common masters, who are big capitalists
and super-rich persons and industrialist, in
other words, all these opposition parties and
big capitalists  have been always complimenting
each other and they both  take pride in helping
and serving interests of each other, which is not
at all pro-poor and pro-people. Their interest in
removing sorrows and sufferings of the poor
people and the general public is mostly a
“sham and hypocrisy”.

     Not only this, rather because of these
very reasons “prices and unemployment”
skyrocketing and have been continuously
increasing here as a result of which the vast
population of the poor and the middle income
class in the country for the teason of being the
hardest hit are highly unhappy and stressed.
This is the main reason why the economic
condition of the people of the “Bahujan Samaj”
here along with that of particularly the poor
people from the “avarna (Upper/High carte)
Samaj” continues to be very bad even now.

    Keeping all these matters in view, we
then by following the paths shown by Parampujya
Baba Saheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar had to form
a separate political party of ours by the name
of the “Bahujan Samaj party” (BSP) under the
leadership of “Manyawar Shri Kanshi Ram Ji”
on April 14, 1984, and now this party with
limitless love, sacrifices and cooperation of the
Sarva Samaj has become a prominent and
important party at the “national level”.

    And as it is known to all, the Bhaujan
Samaj Party (BSP) does not at all follow in the
footsteps of the anti-poor and pro-capitalists
parties like the congress and the BJP, and
rather than take money from capitalists and
super-rich like other parties and work at their
bidding, it is running its “humanistic
movement” all over the country by taking
donation and membership subscription from
its cadre, followers and supporters.

    By following the same principle, our
party has also got an auspicious opportunity of
forming its own government several times in
the most populous state of the country, Uttar
Pradesh, and it has been the first and the only
government in the country every policy of which
has been framed by keeping in view the moto
of “Sarvajan Hitaye and sarvajan Sukhaye”
(Progress and Prosperity For All), which clearly
and perfectly reflects “Pro-sarvajan and pro-
Sarva Samaj ideology and policies” of the BSP.

    Not only this, rather this party of ours
by gradually expanding its mass-base in the
entire countrys now ensured victory of many
of its nominees and sent them as MPs to
Parliament and as Legislators in several state
assemblies. besides, government has been
formed under the leadership of our party in Uttar
Pradesh four times, ( first three times in the years
of 1995, 1997, and 2002 for short periods but
in the year of 2007 with an absolute majority
for five years), and , all the four times the
government of our party has in the matter of
ensuring “development and justice” in the state
taken full care of interests and welfare of the
Sarva samaj, but we have also given first
priority to those people of the “Bahujan samaj”,
who under the past governments have been
neglect here on a big scale particularly in the
“social, educational and economic” field.

    And it is by taking serious note of this
that the government of our (BSP) part in Uttar
Pradesh in order to bring about judicious
improvement in “social, educational and
economic” condition of the people of the
Bahujan Samaj constituted for the first time in
the country separate “Welfare Department” for
each of their segments and by selecting
particularly SC/ST majority villages in the state
on a priority basis under the Dr. ambedkar Gram
Vikas Yojana ( Village Development Scheme) has
done the work of covering them with necessary
basic amenities of every kind and other works
of development also in a phased manner and
then with a view to making this scheme still
more beneficial has made available a lot of funds
under this ssheme and changes its name to
“Baba Saheb Dr.Ambedkat Uttar Pradesh Gram
Sabha Samagra Vikas Yojana” for all round
development of gramsabhas.

    Similarly in the name of Manyawar Shri
Kanshi Ram Ji, who advanced the stalled
humanistic self-respect caravan of Baba sahib
Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar by imparting momentum
to it, “Shahari Samagra Vika Yojana” (Urban all
round development scheme) was devised and
through this scheme, cities, towns and villages,
big and small, of Uttar Pradesh were developed
in a phased manner. But momentum could be
imparted to all these works only by keeping in
view limited economic resources of the state, and
had our government got adequate cooperation
from the Central Government for all these welfare
works, still more and speedier benefit could have
been made available to the deprived people.

    Besides by giving priority to particularly
“SC/STs, exploited, other backward classes (OBCs)
and religious minorities” from the Sarva samaj
in Uttar pradesh,”two-room pucca houses”
were given to the poor homeless from among
them and by “allotting vacant government
land” to helpless people for “farming”;
possession has also been ensured to them by
the BSP government, which has directly
benefitted lakhs of poor people in Uttar pradesh.

    For promoting “Education”also, our
BSP government has for the first time in the country
granted “scholarships” to children belonging to
the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes and like
them to the poor children of the other backward
classes (OBCs) and of Muslim samaj in particular
from the religious minorities and in accordance
with increase in prices has “doubled” the rates
of the scholarships and also made arrangements
for distributing these to students immediately
after their admission. And  at the same time, to
help qualifying “poor students from these
classes for high ranking jobs”, our government
has also made arrangements for giving them
“free government coaching”.

    Besides, for poor children from the
“Savarna (Upper Caste) Samaj, along with
these classes in Uttar Pradesh, dawn of a new
age in the field of higher and technical education
has been ushered in under which an historic work
has been done for the first time to send such
children to other countries for higher education
at government expenditure to the newly
established world class “Gautam Buddha
University” in newly created Gautam Buddha
Nagar District (Greater Noida near New Delhi).

    At the same time, giving priority to the
development of people of Scheduled
castes and Scheduled Tribes, a provision was
mad for the first time for separate “25 per
cent fund” from the budget of the Uttar
Pradesh government for them. Similarly, for
creating a sense of security among the people
of the “Bahujan samaj” in every district of Uttar
Pradesh, a provision of “reservation” was made
for the first time in the country for making
officers of the “police department” from their
society as Station House Officers (SHO).

    Similarly, full care has been taken of
particularly the people of the “Muslim Society”
the largest segment of the religious minority
society, in Uttar Pradesh in every field. their
educational and economic development and also
full security of their life and property and religion
were ensured. in addition, by including
economically backward people from the Muslim
society in the list of the backward class, our party’s
government for the first time made available
to them “facility of reservation in government
jobs and other fields” in Uttar Pradesh.

    A new initiative in the matter of
 ”reservation” : In the matter of “reservation”
also, we during all our terms in office i Uttar
Pradesh have got cleared the backlog of
“reservation” quota of people of the
Scheduled castes(SCs)/Scheduled Tribes (STs)
and the other backward classes (OBCs) pending
for years in government services and other areas
by conducting a spacial recruitment drive as a
result of which the people of these classes got
“permanent employment on a big scale”
and a new kind of confidence was generated
among the people of these classes.

    Besides, for making available the facility
of “reservation” in the areas like ” hon’ble
Judiciaary, council of ministers, Rajya Sabha,
Legislative Councils and private sectors” etc., in
the country where it is not yet been made
available to the people of the Scheduled castes/
Scheduled Tribes and the other backward
classes by the Central Government, our party’s
struggle with the Central Government is
relentlessly continuing. At the same time,
relentless effort is being made by our party for
securing the benefit of reservation in an
additional way, keeping intact the provision of
reservation as fixed at present, to those people
of the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes in the
country who through religious conversion have
become Christians or Muslims, by taking up with
the Central Government their inclusion also into
the list of Scheduled castes/Scheduled Tribes.

    Moreover, the governments of the
Congress Party, BJP and other opposition parties
under a well thought out conspiracy are engaged
in an attempt to gradually finish the facility of
reservation, which the people of the Scheduled
Castes (SCs)/ Scheduled Tribes (STs) and the
other backward classes (OBCs) are getting in
government services in “government
departments” and “institutions” at central and
state levels in the country becausee of tireless
efforts of most revered Bba Saheb Dr. Bhimrao
Ambedkar, by handing these over to the “private
sector” on a big scale, when the facility of
reservation is not yet available to these
classes in jobs at the central and state levels in
the private sector. And in such a situation, a day
will come when the entire constitutional facility
of reservation for these classes will automatically
come to an end. Our party is very “serious and
worried” over this matter and in this regard the
people of these classes all over the country also
need to be very “alert and vigilant”.

    In this context, it is the believe of our party
that this constitutional facility of reservation of
the people of SCs/STs and OBCs can remain
secure and this facility can be secured for them
in the areas where it is not yet available only
when these people form a government of their
own party, BSP, in the country, in the Centre
also along with that in the states and an
“incontrovertible proof” of this is the formation
of our party’s government in Uttar Pradesh as
the BSP’s is the first and the only government
in the country to have ensured “full guarantee”
of keeping intact the existing facility of
reservation even after the handing over of any
“government department” and “institution” in
Uttar Pradesh to the private sector.

    At the same time, our party in the matter
of reservation has for the first time made a
provision that if the works of government
departments are given to any “private
institution” or “individual” on contract, then the
same percentage of reservation would continue
to be given to the people of the SCs, Sts and
the OBCs classes as they have been getting in
government departments.

    At the same time, our party in the  matter
of “reservation” all over the country is a votary
of providing separate reservation to the poor
people from the Savarna (Upper caste)
society on an economic basis, which would
have to be implemented only by the “Central
Government” by amending the Country’s
Constitution. Therefore, several times letters
have been written by the government of our
party to the Government for giving separate
reservation to these classes on an
economic basis, but this suggestion of ours
has not so far been accepted by the Central
Government of any party.

    But in this regard, I wish to assure the
people of the “Savarna Society” that when a
government of our party is formed, then our
party’s government would make a meaningful
attempt to remove their poverty and
unemployment also by certainly making
available the facility of reservation to them
without being asked by them to do so. And even
otherwise it is known to you people about the
work style of our party that our party does what
it says, in other words, there is no difference
between assertions and deeds of our party, this
is known to all by now.

    My party’s government has also been
fully sensitive and serious over “Social
Security”  benefits to the people along with
Constitutional facility of “reservation”. Therefore,
we have increased the amount of old age/farmer
pension from Rs.150 to Rs.300. At the same
time, may party’s government promptly
increased the daily wages of “labourers” from
Rs.58 to Rs. 100 as they are the most poor
and weaker section and mostly come in the
category of “agricultural “labourers” and to whom
no attention had ever been paid earlier  because
of their having been not organized.

    At the same time, our BSP government
in Uttar Pradesh has instead of giving
“unemployment allowance” provided the youths
with an opportunity to live with self-respect and
self-reliance by providing them with
“opportunity of permanent employment”.
In addition to these, my part’s government has
taken full care of interests of the poor and
unemployed people from the Sarva samaj as
also “farmers”, “workers”, “traders” and the
people engaged in other occupations and has
taken many important decisions in their interests.

    Along with these works, our party’s
government in Uttar pradesh has given full
respect and honor to great Sants, Gurus and
Mahapurush ( great men) born from time to
time in the Bahujan Samaj by creating several
“new  districts, universities, hospitals and
museums and many other important
places” were named after them.

    Here, I also wish to say it that the
peole of SCs/STs, backward and other
neglected samaj (classes) have been victims
of excesses and atrocities of various kinds
perpetrated  by the people having a cattiest
mindset since independence till date and they
are “not getting full justice” in time and in a
proper and satisfactory manner. But our party
on coming to power in the Centre would not at
all allow “injustice and exploitation” of any kind
to any class of the society and would do
” Justice to all” and by fully establishing a
“Rule of Law By Law” in the entire country.
like in Uttar Pradesh and would thereby create
an “atmosphere free from injustice, crime,
exploitation and fear”

    At the same time, because of absence of
adequate development and rampant injustice,
exploitation, poverty and wretched condition
across the regions in our country, the people are
adopting the path of “Naxalism”, and Centre
and the state governments have not yet given
proper attention towards them, but our party
immediately on assuming power in the Centre
would make every possible effort to find a “lasting
solution” to all their problems and will also make
fullest effort to bring them into the mainstream
of development process by providing them the
opportunity of “permanent employment”.

    Besides, “terrorism” has grown to be
big challenge before our country over the past
few years, the main reason of which are
weaknesses of the Central Government and also
whichever party is in power also has to some
extent a vested political interest in it. But our
party on coming to power in the Centre would
pay full attention towards this also.

    As far the question of the National
Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme is
concerned, there is a provision of providing
employment for only 100 out of 365 days in a
year under the scheme and that too for only
one unemployed member of a family. But on
coming to power in then Centre, we will run such
a scheme for the poor and needy people living
in rural areas all over the country as would
ensure for them “employment throughout the
year, i.e., all the 365 days of a year” by
restructuring/rationalising various existing
welfare schemes.

    At the same time, it is also no secret to
anyone that during the long rule of over 63 years
of the Congress and the BJP and their supporting
parties, “farm, farming and farmers” have
been neglected in a big way; in other words, in
the process of encouraging big/heavy industries
under the governments of these parties serious
negligence has been shown towards interests
and welfare of “farming sector and farmers”.

    Not only this, rather persisting in this
cattiest and feudal mindset even now, the
Central Government led by the Congress party
announced only a few concessions in the budget
for 2007-08 to benefit a handful of big farmers.
Such announcements are generally made before
elections because of which their real benefit
does accrue to the people.

    At the same time, no concern is shown
for crores of such farmers in the country who are
groaning under loan at exorbitant rates of
interests from money lenders. They constitute
about 46 per cent of total number of farmers and
need government assistance to the maximum so
that they could be prevented from committing
suicides. But the Central and the state
governments have done nothing to improve the
wretched lots of crores of families and farmers.

    Another bitter truth in this process is that
the land of the poor and helpless people have
been acquired for setting up big/heavy
industries, but they have not been given jobs
of even the lowest order in those industries
because of which the life of the people of the
“Adivasi (Scheduled Tribe) Samaj” in
particular has become still more difficult. During
the rule of the Congress and the BJP, this is the
height of exploitation, but our party wants to
make “farming a dignified occupation”.

    Not only that, our path wants to see
the life of farmers as happy and prosperous.
Our BSP government in its very first year had
began work on an extremely ambitious “Ganga
Express-Way” , from NOIDA (New Delhi) to
Ballia, bordering Bihar which could have turned
around the face and fortunes of about half the
’state and at the same time could have improved
the fate of farmers on a big scale, but it did not
get adequate cooperation from the Central
Government for this high ambitious project.

    Besides, a proper use would be made of
“Natural Resources” in the country for
improvement in the economic condition of the
people.”Good and proper use of natural
resources” in the full and honest natural
interest  can play big role in improving the
standard of life of the people here. We are in
favor of providing solution to the problem of
unemployment at the local level by making
“optimum use small resources” of the area itself.

    At the same time, of the land fit for cultivation
and lying vacant with the government
in the entire country, which is not being used,
such “fallow land” at the rate of “3 acres would
be distributed free” on the pattern of Uttar
Pradesh for cultivation to the people of the Sarva
Samaj by giving priority to the poor and
unemployed peole of the SC/s/STs and backward
classes. Not only this, rather villages, kasbas,
towns and big cities in the entire country would
be developed on the pattern of the “Dr.
Ambedkar Gram Vikas Yojana”  and the
“Manyawar Kanshi Ram Ji Shahari Samagra
Vikas Yojana” devised in Uttar Pradesh.

    Thus, our party after coming to power
in the Centre would frame the “Economic
Policy” of the country in every field by keeping
in view interests of the Sarva Samaj for then
only can our party’s dream of “Sarvajan Hitaye
and Sarvajan Sukhaye” be realized. At the same
time, our every economic policy would be
designed to reach “proper benefit to the general
public”, and it will not be of a kind that makes
the “rich richer and the poor poorer” as has
been happening during the rule of the Congress,
the BJP and their supporting parties so far.

    Besides, on coming to power in the
Centre, our government’s  “Foreign Policy” in
every respect would be absolutely in the full
interest of Sarva samajand the country; in
other words, while framing foreign policy and
reaching international agreements special care
would be taken of the security of the country
as also of the country’s honour,self-respect and
sovereignty, it would not be mortgaged the way
it was done by the Congress-led UPA
Government while entering into the Indo-
American Nuclear Deal in the year of 2008.

    In brief, it is the contention of our party
that if the people of the “Bahujan Samaj and
 the Upper Caste Samaj” wish to create all over
the country an atmosphere akin to that ensures
by the BSP government of Uttar Pradesh by
securing for the people a “life of self-respect”,
they would have to take the”Master Key of
political power” into their own hands by
showing a good result in the Lok Sabha general
elections being held in the country now.

    But for achieving success in this, they
would certainly have to be alert against “many
tactics like “Saam, Daam, Dand, Bhedh”
(cajolery, inducement, coercion, divisive
politics) etc., of opposition parties because
opposition parties can go to any extent to harm
our party and its electoral prospect.

    And in this regard, opposition parties
would make fullest efforts to see to it that our
party cannot at any cost get the votes of the
people of Upper caste society , and for this,
opposition parties may also try to present a
distorted picture about our party’s “ideology and
policies”, whereas the ideologies and policies of
our party are not against any caste and religion,
rather the “BSP wishes to unite in a spirit of
brotherhood the people fragmented in this
country on the basis of caste and vans in order
to establish here a ‘humanity-based Equalitarian
Social Order’, which is in fullest interest of the
Sarva samaj and the country an in which all
the people are equal and share mutual fraternal
feelings, then only the inequitable social
order prevalent in the country be uprooted.

    And if in this missionary work of “Social
Transformation”, the people of the “Upper
caste society” also along with the “Bahujan
Samaj” extend their cooperation, doors would
be found open for such people for admission to
and advancement in the Bahujan Samaj Party.

    In this regard, I also wish to make it, clear
here that had the “ideology and policies” of our
party been against the “Upper Caste Samaj”, why
would our party have kept the people of these
class at the national and state levels in its
organizations? Also, why would it have fielded
them in the Lok sabha and Assembly elections
on its tickets and given them respectable position
of ministers on formation of its government in Uttar
Pradesh? In other words, the ideology and all
the policies of our party are pro-Sarva Samaj
and based on the ideal humanistic principle of
“Sarvajan Hitaye and Sarvajan Sukhaye”.

    Besides,  also wish to make it clear, here
about the “ideology and policies” of that BSP that
an “Equalitarian Social Order” is not going to be
established in the country by organizing only the
people of  the “Bahujan Samaj” alone. For this,
we would also have to take along the Upper caste
Hindus on the basis of “social brothrhood” by
changing their cattiest mindset, then only an
“Equalitarian Social Order” in a real sense, in
accordance with the thinking of the architect of
Country’s Constitution Baba Saheb Dr. Bhimrao
Ambedkar, can be established in our country, and
it is only after this that the Sarva Samaj can  be
fully united and divisions of “high” and “low” and
caste and creed can come to an end in the society
here for ever and then only the people can get
full opportunity of advancing in every walk of life.

    But the BSP people would have to bear
this in mind that the Congress, BJP and their
supporting parties will not allow our party to
come to power so easily here in the Centre and
to prevent our party from com in to power in
the Centre all the opposition parties will use
“tactics of every kind like cajolery,
inducement, coercion, divisive politics
etc.,” and the party people would have to be
very alert against it at every step.

    What is meant is that at the time of the
Lok Sabha general elections being held in the
country, all the opposition parties can influence
your votes by misleading you with “inducements
and assurances” of various kinds. For this reason,
it is my advice to BSP supporters and well wishers
that you have to be fully alert against all kinds
of tactics employed by the Congress, BJP and
their allies during the elections.

    And in this regard, what merits particular
attention here is that whenever these opposition
parties have there governments in the Centre and
the states, then for the first 3-4 years they do
not bother even a little bit about the interests of
the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, other
backward classes (OBCs), religious minorities and
the poor and unemployed people from the Upper
castes and farmers, workers, traders, employees
and the people engaged in other occupations, but
when the time of elections comes close the
interests of these classes suddenly come to the
mind of these opposition parties and then these
parties start using “electoral tactics” of different
kinds such as making many populist laws and
rules in their interests, distributing scholarships,
cheap wheat and rice and other populist relief
acts of various kinds. But once the elections are
over, these opposition parties treat these laws
and rules as garbage and discard them in the
garbage bin and the work of relief etc., then
comes to an end until the next elections.

    Besides, attempts could also be made by
thé opposition par ties during the elections to garners
your votes by spreading rumors of different
kinds against which also our party people need
to be extremely vigilant. At the same time, it is
also my “APPEAL” to the people and
sympathisers  of BSP that “you remain fully alert ,
your vote is invaluable, ensure that none of your
votes can be purchased nor could be looted.
Neither it is left uncast nor it is misused by any
selfish element ensnare you in the name of caste
and creed, by using money power or by inciting
feelings over the issue of temple and mosque,
in other words, you have to defend democracy
with all your might.

    Therefore, in the interest of Sarva
Samaj, your respective state and country,
you have to entrust power in the centre into
the hands of the right party, that is Bahujan Samaj
Party (BSP) so that the party’s government
through this power can frame each one of its
policies in every walk of life in accordance with
the principle of “Sarvajan Hitaye and
Sarvajan Sukhaye i.e., Progress and
Prosperity For All” and thereby make the life
of the “Bahujan Samaj and poor and unemployed
people from Upper/high caste society happy and
prosperous in a dignified manner.”

In the end keeping all these matters in
view, I make this “APPEAL” to all the supporters,
followers  and well wishers of the BSP that they
should not be misled by any populist promises
made in the “election manifestos” of opposition
parties, in other words, they should act only on
this “APPEAL” of their own party and must
make all the BSP candidates in this general
elections being held for the Lok Sabha victorious

by pressing the button facing the B.S.P. election
symbol “Elephant”of their party. I fully have
this expectation from the people of my party,
its supporters and well wishers.

Jai Bhim, Jai Bharat