New Delhi: The family of Bahujan Samaj Party founder Kanshi Ram, who died at 72 on Monday, plans to file a case against BSP leader Mayawati to get possession of his body.
The family, which already has a legal battle running against Mayawati, says the case will be filed in the Delhi High Court. The court is hearing a family complaint that Mayawati didn’t allow them to meet him when he was being treated in a Delhi hospital.
“She (Mayawati) is very bad and ill-mannered. We have no faith in her. She did not even tell us about his death. We saw the news on TV. We must get justice. The dead body should be given to the family and a post mortem should be conducted. We suspect she killed him,” said Kanshi Ram’s sister Swaran Kaur.
When Kanshi Ram was being treated in Delhi’s Batra Hospital in May 2004, his family sat on a protest outside. Ram’s mother Bishan Kaur alleged then that Mayawati was not allowing anyone to meet her son.
Kaur had alleged then that Kanshi Ram was “under detention”.
Kanshi Ram founded the BSP in 1984. It was essentially meant to be a platform for Dalit representation in the country. The party first came to power in 1995 in Uttar Pradesh with Mayawati as the Chief Minister. Kanshi Ram had been suffering from several ailments and was bed-ridden in Mayawati's house in Delhi, for more than two years.
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