Updated on Saturday, May 12, 2007, 00:00 IST

Chennai, May 12: Congratulating BSP leader Mayawati for leading her party to an overwhelming victory in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, PMK founder S Ramadoss on Saturday said her success "symbolised victory of social justice, betterment of oppressed and suppressed classes of the state in particular and India in general".

Ramadoss said the broad-based strategies of including every community under the fold of BSP paid rich dividends and demonstrated that the people of Uttar Pradesh had more faith in secularism and socialism than in communal and corrupt forces.

"I am sure your new rule would usher in a new era of peace and social progress in Uttar Pradesh," he said in his message to Mayawati and expressed hope that she would continue to support the policies of UPA government at the Centre to which his party was also a partner.

Bureau Report