LUCKNOW, Feb. 27 -- Stepping up its outreach to Dalits and other marginalised communities ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, the Samajwadi Party (SP) has announced that it will celebrate the birth anniversary of Kanshi Ram as 'PDA Diwas' or 'Bahujan Samaj Diwas' across the state on March 15 this year.

The party's Baba Saheb Ambedkar Vahini has been tasked with organising programmes at district headquarters across the state.

Taking to social media, SP president Akhilesh Yadav said that 'PDA Diwas' was a new beginning symbolically dedicated to all the great individuals of the community who never supported any hegemony in pursuit of the dignity, uplift and equality of every oppressed, distressed, and humiliated individual....