The credit of naming the newly-built Telangana Secretariat after B.R. Ambedkar and installing his statue should go to Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) cadre, said its supremo Mayawati in Hyderabad on Sunday.
Addressing a meeting of party activists at Saroornagar, she said that the KCR government erected Babasaheb’s statue and named the Secretariat after him, as BSP was becoming a force to reckon with in Telangana. The statue installation and Secretariat naming were done by KCR government for his political gains, she said.
Appealing to SC, ST and OBC voters not to fall for such gimmicks of KCR, the BSP supremo exhorted her party activists to make all-out efforts to bring the party into power in ensuing Telangana Assembly elections. “BSP Telangana president R.S. Praveen Kumar would be the chief ministerial candidate in the coming Assembly elections,” she announced amidst applause of thousands of party workers.
