Kanshi Ram, also known as Bahujan Nayak or Manyavar, Sahab Kanshiram was an Indian politician and social reformer who worked for the upliftment and political mobilisation of the Bahujans, the backward or lower caste people including untouchable groups at the bottom of the caste system in India. Towards this end, Kanshi Ram founded Dalit Shoshit Samaj Sangharsh Samiti (DS-4), the All India Backwards (SC/ST/OBC) and Minorities Communities Employees' Federation (BAMCEF) in 1971 and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in 1984. In 2001, he ceded leadership of the BSP to his protégé Mayawati who has served four terms as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.

Headlines from March 15, 1934

AIR INQUIRY POST DECLINED SHARPLY BY COL. LINDBERGH; WRIGHT ALSO REFUSES

ITALY ASKS FRANCE TO JOIN A NEW DEAL; Mussolini Proposes They End Clashes, Isolating Germany by European Alliance. SOVIET TURNS TO LEAGUE Austria, Hungary and Italy Ready for Signing of Three-Power Pact in Rome Today. ITALY ASKS FRANCE TO JOIN NEW DEAL

Dr. Butler Chats an Hour With Premier Mussolini

8 Race Horses Killed in Belmont Park Fire; Kerry Patch Is Led Out of Blazing Stable

U.S. GUNBOAT BURNS OFF CHINESE COAST; ALL IN CREW SAVED; British Ships Speed to Help of Fulton in Storm and Take 187 Men to Hongkong. THREE SAILORS ARE HURT Small Craft, Commissioned in 1914, Believed Total Loss -- Origin of Fire Unknown.

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