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Mayawati Threatens To Convert To Buddhism:- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was attacked by Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati to change its mindset towards the Dalits, Tribals and backward classes or else she would be forced to convert to Buddhism like Bhimrao Ambedkar.

“I throw an open challenge to the BJP to change its casteist and communal mindset towards Dalits, Adivasis, Backwards and also those who have changed their religion or else I will also have to take a decision towards changing my religion to Buddhism,” she said at a party rally in Uttar Pradesh.

Mayawati recalling Ambedkar, she said that he had called on the Shankaracharyas and seers to modify it, after witnessing discrimination in the ‘varna vyawastha’ (caste system) in Hinduism.

Ambedkar converted to Buddhism in Nagpur along with his followers, a little before his death, since it was not done, she added.

She further said that she too is giving an opportunity to the Shankaracharyas, religious leaders and people associated with the BJP to change their thinking or else she too will convert to Buddhism at the right time along with crores of supporters. The BJP was accused of taking the “casteist agenda” of the RSS forward. She even blamed it for the suicide of Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad and the Una case of Gujarat where some Dalits were assaulted resulting in outrage and protests.

The Congress and other opposition parties had also fielded a Dalit candidate as the BJP has fielded a Dalit associated with the RSS as the presidential candidate to garner votes.

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