LUCKNOW, March 10 -- Apni Janta Party led by Swami Prasad Maurya will launch a state-wide 'Samvidhan Samman and Janhit Hunkar Yatra' from March 15, aiming to draw attention to what he termed as increasing atrocities against Dalits, minorities, and backward communities under the BJP rule. The Yatra will begin on the birth anniversary of the late Kanshi Ram.

Addressing a press conference at his residence in Lucknow's Gomti Nagar on Monday, Maurya alleged that the BJP government was failing on multiple fronts, weakening constitutional institutions, and disregarding the reservation system. He claimed that incidents of injustice against marginalised communities had surged and accused the government of using communal issues to divert public at...