Lucknow, Oct. 10 -- On a day on which Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati attacked the Samajwadi Party and thanked the BJP government for upkeep of memorials of Dalit icons, SP national president Akhilesh Yadav announced a park and statue of BSP founder Kanshi Ram would come up on the Gomti riverfront in Lucknow if his party forms the government in Uttar Pradesh in 2027. He made the announcement as he attended a programme to mark Kanshi Ram's 19th death anniversary at the SP office in Lucknow. If Mayawati is praising the Bharatiya Janata Party, then it means there is some kind of internal collusion between her and the BJP, he said. On Mayawati's allegations, Yadav said, "The Samajwadi people, including Netaji (SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav) and Lohiaji have always stood for the oppressed. We all know that Kanshi Ramji won his election from Etawah and became an MP with the help of the Samajwadi Party." Reacting to the BSP chief's praise of the BJP government, Yadav said, "It means something is brewing in the background and there is an internal collusion. If anyone has installed statues of Kanshi Ramji, apart from her (Mayawati), then it is us. During the SP regime, we had instructed the LDA to maintain all the memorials. I saw date trees dying back then, so I ordered them to replace them with better ones. The colour of the stones, which have turned black, would have been intact if the BJP government had done proper maintenance." "When we form the government, we will get a statue of Kanshi Ramji installed on the riverfront and will also have a park in his name," SP announced. The former chief minister thanked SP MP from Mohanlalganj RK Chaudhary for organising the event. On last month's violence in Bareilly, the SP president said, "Whatever has happened in Bareilly is a failure of the administration. When there was an announcement beforehand, what was the administration doing? It was all deliberately done by the administration so that the BJP could take political mileage from it." He demanded that the 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections be held in one phase. The Samajwadi Party on Thursday released a list of five candidates for the UP Legislative Council (MLC) teachers' and graduates' constituency elections. For the teachers' constituency polls, the SP has named Lal Bihari Yadav for the Varanasi-Mirzapur seat and Kamlesh for the Gorakhpur-Faizabad segment. For the graduate constituency elections, the SP has nominated Dr Maan Singh for the Allahabad-Jhansi constituency, Ashutosh Sinha for the Varanasi-Mirzapur seat and Kanti Singh for the Lucknow segment....