Lucknow, June 16 -- Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has stepped up her outreach to the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, asserting that the community's welfare and interests can be safeguarded only under a BSP government.
This was stated in a statement issued by the BSP on Tuesday. Mayawati said that the OBC community played a historic role in helping the BSP form its first full-majority government in the state in 2007. The party is now preparing at the grassroots level to repeat that history in the 2027 elections.
She said that meetings held in Lucknow over the past several days included a thorough review of the party's OBC support base and r...