LUCKNOW, June 17 -- BSP president Mayawati on Tuesday alleged that welfare schemes launched by the Uttar Pradesh government for the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) existed only on paper and had failed to reach the intended beneficiaries.

Reviewing preparations for the 2027 UP assembly elections and meetings organised by the party in various districts to mobilise OBC support, Mayawati urged the community to back the BSP and transform themselves from an "exploited class" into the "ruling class".

Mayawati said OBCs had played a pivotal role in the BSP securing a majority in the 2007 assembly elections. She asked party leaders and office-bearers to spread the message that the welfare and uplift of OBCs could be ensured only under a BSP govern...