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	Untouchable politics and politicians since 1956 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kanshi Ram was born in 1934 as a Raedasi Sikh, a community of Punjabi Chamars converted to Sikhism.
		Kanshi Ram's father was himself 'slightly' literate, and he managed to educate all his four daughters and three sons.
		Kanshi Ram had encountered no Untouchability as a child, and overt discrimination was not a phenomenon within the educated circles of his adult life.
	www.dalitstan.org /vishnu/kansh.htm (3190 words)

	Kanshi Ram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kanshi Ram (born 1934) is an Indian politician of Dalit Sikh background.
		As of April, 2005, Kanshi Ram has spent more than a year recovering from health problems and has not appeared publicly during that time.
		Yatra planned to free Kanshi Ram, Tribune, Dec. 10, 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kanshi_Ram (224 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kanshi Ram discounted the threat from either the Congress or the Samajwadi Party of Mulayam Singh Yadav, and asserted that more than one-third of the MLAs in the U.P. Assembly owing allegiance to the Congress and the Samajwadi Party were prepared to contest on the BSP ticket.
		Kanshi Ram said the BSP was not opposed to it, and the party also favoured reservation in the private sector.
		Kanshi Ram said the upper castes in North India were not opposed to BSP rule, and even Brahmins were supporting it.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2003061604200400.htm&date=2003/06/16/&prd=th& (430 words)

	A paradigm shift called Kanshi Ram - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kanshi Ram suffered a brain stroke on September 15 when he was travelling from Rajahmundry to Hyderabad.
		Kanshi Ram was the first politician who evolved a language to fuse the Dalits and the OBCs into one electoral bloc.
		In the UP context, Kanshi Ram could drive at least all the Dalits to the election booths with a determination to vote for the BSP and that itself was no mean achievement.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/nov06/edst.asp (763 words)

	Kanshi Ram at crossroads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kanshi Ram's problem is that except in the case of the 1993 SP-BSP alliance, none of its alliances has helped the party grow.
		No wonder Kanshi Ram's problems are multiplying and not the least of them is the increasing fragmentation of the BSP leadership ever since it became a part of the ruling elite.
		Kanshi Ram and Mayawati tried to compensate for their loss by wooing politicians from other castes.
	www.indianexpress.com /ie/daily/19980429/11950924.html (907 words)

	Kanshi's proposal indecent for Digvijay
		She reportedly told Kanshi Ram about her talks with BJP leader Rajnath Singh in the Central Hall of the Parliament and also of telephonic discussions with Pramod Mahajan on future shape of the UP government.
		Kanshi Ram explained to the Congress that the situation was beyond control and he could not do anything.
		Kanshi Ram suggested that Sonia should speak to Mayawati who had been hurt that except for a junior leader like Ajit Jogi none of the senior party leaders had contacted her Sonia is reported to have spoken to Mayawati in the early hours of the day, requesting her to change her stand.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990419/ipo19008.html (513 words)

	The Hindu : RSS behind statute review: Kanshi Ram
		Kanshi Ram made the allegation at a press conference here while asserting that his party would go ahead with the year-long campaign, which began on March 15, to oppose the special commission set up to review the Constitution.
		Kanshi Ram, said those who had been oppressed and exploited failed to rise against forces which wanted to perpetuate the social inequalities.
		Kanshi Ram admitted that for the last 10 years he had been a leader of ``worthless'' people who have ``failed to revolt'' against those who wanted to perpetuate the social inequalities.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/04/04/stories/0204000y.htm (255 words)

	I prefer Italian putri to Aryan putra -- Kanshi Ram
		Kanshi Ram also strongly asserted that no government which was elected at the hustings would be able to last for more than a year.
		Elaborating his views on the odd timing of elections, Kanshi Ram said that whichever government was elected would be able to last barely for a year.
		Kanshi Ram went on to have a dig at the press.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990827/ipo27113.html (570 words)

	BSP has spent Rs 50 lakh on Kanshi Ram: Mayawati : HindustanTimes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Alleging that it was at the behest of her political rivals that the family members of Kanshi Ram had filed a petition that he was being kept in illegal confinement by her, Mayawati, in an affidavit before the Supreme Court, claimed that the BSP founder was staying voluntarily with her.
		Denying the allegation that the senior party leader was drugged and sedated as "baseless", she said it was Kanshi Ram's brothers who allegedly tried to administer something to him in the name of medicine, which was objected to by the doctors of Batra Hospital in New Delhi.
		The BSP President said if Kanshi Ram's family members were given the rights of his treatment, the consequences might be far-reaching and even irreparable as there was possibility of some mishap endangering his life.
	www.htcricket.com /news/181_1249718,0008.htm (357 words)

	The numbers game
		According to Kanshi Ram, if his party had revealed its hand during the debate, the BJP would have, by means fair or foul, caused a split in its ranks, the way it did with the Uttar Pradesh unit of the BSP in October 1997, to ensure its survival.
		However, it was obvious that ever since the crisis in the Government manifested itself, Kanshi Ram had advocated voting against the Government while Mayawati argued in favour of helping the BJP survive by abstaining from the vote.
		Kanshi Ram now says that there was in fact no difference of opinion and that this perceived difference was a camouflage intended to mislead the BJP and foil its attempts to split the BSP.
	www.thehindu.com /thehindu/fline/fl1609/16090100.htm (2170 words)

	Failed alliances
		Although Kanshi Ram was reportedly not pleased with Mayawati's stand, he submitted to her line of argument as she virtually controls the party machinery on account of her special status as a two-time Chief Minister.
		Kanshi Ram told Frontline that he aimed at a five-fold increase in the seats tally and an increase in the vote share in orde r to move up to the third place.
		Arguing that the BJP was a bigger danger to the BSP, Kanshi Ram showed keenness to enter into a short-term alliance with the Congress(I) or the S.P. His manoeuvres relating to the vote of co nfidence, which ultimately led to the fall of the government, point to this move.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1620/16200200.htm (2087 words)

	INDIA FIRST FOUNDATION
		Kanshi Ram, the BSP supreme, assiduously snatched the harijan votes from the Congress.
		This was not acceptable to Mulayam Singh, also because Kanshi Ram set a condition that Mayawati would be the chief minister of UP, in the event of a victory.
		As a consequence, the UF formula was vetoed by both Kanshi Ram and Mulayam Singh.
	www.indiafirstfoundation.org /archives/articles/arc_dnm/1996/june2896.htm (1216 words)

	Kanshi Ram is Mazhabi - Something for Sikhs to reflect
		You are raising some good points.Kanshi ram was a Sikh but it is dobtful if he still is.He is a leader of India's Dalits.
		Kanshi Ram is from Mazhabi Sikh family from Ropar.
		Kanshi Ram is more of a North Indian Periyar.
	www.sikhnet.com /sikhnet/discussion.nsf/SearchView/9A47FFBD559B78D887256C5E0002B351!OpenDocument (309 words)

	U.P. Government (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kanshi Ram and wished for his speedy recovery.
		Kanshi Ram and got information from the concerning doctors regarding his health.
		Kanshi Ram.He said that his visit should not be seen from political point of view.
	www.upgov.nic.in /news11.asp?idn=1116 (122 words)

	GN Online: Kanshi Ram key to swing vote
		The route both parties have taken to get into the good books of the BSP leadership is to visit its ailing founder president Kanshi Ram who is presently admitted to the private sector Batra Hospital in south Delhi after suffering a stroke recently.
		Kanshi Ram abdicated his post to hand over president of the party to Mayawati last Saturday.
		"Kanshi Ram is the tallest living Dalit leader and these visits confirm his stature," said Raashid Alvi, a BSP lawmaker, insisting these visits will have no impact on state polls since his party is sticking to its original stand of going it alone in all four states.
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=98665 (671 words)

	Kanshi Ram
		It would not be inappropriate to describe Kanshi Ram to be the scud missile of Indian politics.
		Kanshi Ram has been mobilizing scheduled castes and manufacturing electoral majority by bringing all these castes together.
		Electoral gains are important for the BSP as Kanshi Ram puts it "Political power is the master key to all other door".
	www.upportal.com /politics/pol_kanshi.asp (456 words)

	Kanshi Ram -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Kanshi Ram (born 1934) is an (A member of the race of people living in North America when Europeans arrived) Indian politician of (additional info and facts about Dalit) Dalit (An adherent of Sikhism) Sikh background.
		He shares the BSP's leadership with Mayawati, a Dalit woman, whose relationship to Kanshi Ram is the subject of numerous and contradictory rumors.
		As of April, (additional info and facts about 2005) 2005, Kanshi Ram has spent more than a year recovering from health problems and has not appeared publically during that time.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ka/kanshi_ram.htm (243 words)

	Mayawati looking after me well: Kanshi Ram - Sify.com
		Kanshi Ram's younger brothers, Dalbara Singh and Harbans Lal, went to the press yesterday, accusing Mayawati of keeping the BSP leader in ''detention and not allowing the relatives to meet him''.
		A bed-ridden Kanshi Ram, who had changed the course of politics by providing an identity to the Dalits, frequently burst into tears when the media posed questions about his health and family members.
		Dr S K Chaudhry, a neuro-surgeon attending on him, said there was lot of blood clotting in Kanshi Ram's brain as a result of which he often lost his memory.
	sify.com /fullstory.php?id=13473630 (562 words)

	Kanshi Ram doesn't mind snap poll, for party sake
		Predicting that the snap poll might be held around November, Kanshi Ram felt no partner of the BJP was prepared to sail with the saffron brigade this time after its humiliation in the recent Assembly elections.
		Kanshi Ram, who has been lying low for quite some time, said his party's support to the Congress was only to defeat theBJP.
		Kanshi Ram is hopeful that in this second mid-term elections, his party would manage to get at least 200 seats and a vote percentage of about 20 per cent.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990121/02150135.html (546 words)

	Netguruindia News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As soon as Mr Solanki reached the area with his son, the other group led by Kanshi Ram also reached the spot," an area police official said.
		Kanshi Ram asked Solanki to stop the construction claiming the plot was in his name.
		Police said there was some political rivalry between the two groups since Kanshi Ram is being supported by another Congress MLA.
	www.netguruindia.com /news/NewsToFile.asp?id=/news/Feb01/12/DEL5.html (238 words)

	Cover Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ram Vilas Paswan, who has always been dreaming of becoming the Prime Minister of the country, after leaving one party and the other, ended up joining hands with the BJP on the eve of 1999 parliamentary elections.
		Ram Vilas stood very loyal to the NDA throughout the Gujarat genocide between February 27 and April end of 2002.
		The truth is that Ram Vilas resigned not because he suddenly realised that the BJP had become communal, but because of the growing proximity between Mayawati and Sangh Parivar.
	www.radianceweekly.com /archives/issue36/article2.htm (1743 words)

	Rediff On The NeT Elections '98: in Vidarbha
		Although B R Ambedkar was from Maharashtra, Kanshi Ram harangues, the people of this state have done nothing to realise his dreams.
		Kanshi Ram argues that the Dalits have allowed themselves to fall for the classic divide-and-rule policy -- with the result that the community, which comprises 85 per cent of the national population (we are quoting Kanshi Ram, not the national census, here) has allowed the 15 per cent upper caste population to rule it.
		Kanshi Ram rubs the point home when he says that the BSP has, in time, increased its vote share from 2 per cent to 21 per cent in UP.
	inhome.rediff.com /news/1998/feb/18kanshi.htm (949 words)

	Is Kanshi in Mayawati's 'clutches'?
		Bahujan Samaj Party leader Kanshi Ram's mother, Bishan Kaur, on Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking his release from the 'illegal confinement' of party president Mayawati.
		Seeking release of her son from the "clutches" of Mayawati, Kaur stated in her petition that the High Court declined to interfere with her request to constitute a commission of doctors and experts to ascertain the medical condition of her son.
		She alleged that Kanshi Ram was under the "illegal confinement of Mayawati" and that he was being "drugged and sedated" to the extent that he had lost consciousness and was unable to form an independent opinion.
	in.rediff.com /news/2004/dec/02kanshi.htm (209 words)

	Excelsior... Nation
		Newspersons today walked out of a press conference of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Kanshi Ram in protest over his remarks that the local media was allegedly dominated by the RSS.
		Instead of giving a straight reply to the reporter’s question, Kanshi Ram Cooly said he knew that he was talking to people from the RSS.
		Kanshi Ram, however, refused to apologise and insisted that the manner in which questions were being put to him indicated that those who were asking them belonged to the RSS.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /00apr04/national.htm (2285 words)

	rediff.com: Kanshi Ram's comment fuels discontent in UP BJP unit
		Bahujan Samaj Party leader Kanshi Ram may have opened a Pandora's box with his comments on the deputy chief minister's post as far as the Uttar Pradesh unit of the BJP is concerned.
		Kanshi Ram's outburst has given the dissenters an opportunity to vent their ire.
		"Kanshi Ram has obviously been misunderstood," Om Prakash Singh said and even mildly rebuked Mishra by saying, "When an issue is being discussed by national leaders, it is improper on the part of state leaders to be air their views in public."
	www.indiaabroad.com /news/2002/apr/24up.htm (374 words)

	Mayawati plans to kill Kanshi Ram: Nephew
		Balwinder Singh, a nephew of Bahujan Samaj Party founder Kanshi Ram, on Wednesday alleged that the former party chief was kept in confinement by Mayawati and there was 'a conspiracy to exterminate Ram at any time'.
		He alleged that no relative, including Ram's mother, was being allowed to meet the former party chief.
		The high court's dismissal of the petition came after Kanshi Ram had told a Registrar appointed by it that he was staying at Mayawati's place on his own free will.
	www.rediff.com /news/2004/aug/18kanshi.htm (183 words)

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		The BSP demanded a joint State coordination committee to be formed to check what Kanshi Ram described as Kalyan Singh's "wayward" approach to his job.
		Kesri, whose promise to Kanshi Ram had so far come to nothing, began to issue dark threats about the future of the I.K. Gujral Government if it did not comply with the demand.
		A statement from Kanshi Ram's adviser, Narendra Singh Chowdhury, attacking Mayawati's "dictatorial style of functioning", was conveyed to dissidents inside the office.
	www.thehindu.com /fline/fl1422/14220040.htm (3922 words)

	THE DIE IS CASTE
		Rather than risk being smashed by going it alone, the party is contesting the election as the junior partner in an alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party, whose leader, Kanshi Ram, is a charismatic figure for the state's Dalits, a group once considered untouchable.
		Kanshi Ram's protege, a lower-caste woman who goes by the single name Mayawati, became the first Dalit chief minister of the state in June 1995.
		Says Ashok Kumar, an agricultural laborer who was one of thousands of Dalits who flocked to Kanshi Ram and Mayawati's recent political meetings: "When she was chief minister, officials who didn't think we even existed suddenly became attentive.
	www.time.com /time/international/1996/961007/india.html (797 words)

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