Jalandhar, Oct. 10 -- The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) held a state-level rally at Phillaur on the occasion of party founder Kanshi Ram's 19th death anniversary on Thursday. Addressing the gathering, BSP state president Avtar Singh Karimpuri said the respective governments, be it Congress, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) or Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), implemented "anti-people" policies during their regimes. "During their tenures, the drug problem took the centre stage, while the religious institutions were attacked and anti-minorities decisions were part of deep-rooted conspiracy," Karimpuri said.

He added that the incidents of desecration of Dr BR Ambedkar's statue increased manifold as the state government "failed" to take strict action. "The state ...