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LUCKNOW: In a bid to woo Dalit voters forward of the 2024 normal elections, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav will unveil the statue of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) founder president late Kanshi Ram in Rae Bareli on April 3.
The SP has began engaged on the technique, which has been laid out for undertaking Mission 2024 by going past its core Muslim-Yadav (M-Y) mixture and making inroads into the BSP’s conventional Dalit vote financial institution.
Akhilesh, going by the recommendation of his celebration MLC Swami Prasad Maurya and different Dalit leaders, can even deal with a public rally to mark the event.
Akhilesh has been accusing BSP chief Mayawati of working as BJP’s B workforce by fielding its candidates as determined by the ruling celebration.
Significantly, within the 2022 Assembly polls, Samajwadi Party, which managed to take its tally from 47 to 111 with 32.06% votes, had obtained the help of simply 31 per cent of Dalits together with 10 per cent of Jatavs. On the opposite hand, BSP, which may win only one meeting seat, obtained 75 per cent of the Dalit votes, together with 47 per cent of Jatavs. However, the general vote share of the BSP declined by 9.35 p.c and got here right down to 12.88 per cent from 22.23 per cent in 2017.
However, whereas the silver lining for the BSP was the consolidation of SCs in its favour, SP received the overwhelming help of Muslims (76%) and Yadavs (73%) like by no means earlier than in 2022.
SP and BSP have tied up twice in Uttar Pradesh. Their first alliance had come by means of in 1993 when SP founder president Mulayam Sigh Yadav and BSP founder president Kanshi Ram got here collectively to cease BJP from returning to energy after the demolition of the disputed construction in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, following which Kalyan Singh’s authorities was dislodged.
While the BJP was assured of returning to energy using on the again of the emotional temple wave, the SP-BSP alliance foiled BJP’s desires of coming to energy. Mulayam continued as CM for the second time in 1993 with the assistance of Kanshi Ram however couldn’t full the time period as a result of withdrawal of Support by the BSP following the notorious ‘Guest House’ episode, whereby, the then BSP normal secretary Mayawati was manhandled by the SP staff in UP State Guest House in June 1995.
The second time, the 2 regional satraps joined fingers once more to cease the saffron juggernaut in 2019 however the caste arithmetic didn’t work in favour of the grand alliance and the BJP received 62 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats by itself. While BSP received 10, SP was relegated to simply 5 seats dropping even its bastions like Badaun, Firozabad and Kannauj.
Just after the 2019 normal elections, SP and BSP parted methods blaming one another for the failure of the grand alliance.
As per the political specialists, each the SP and BSP are eyeing one another’s vote banks. whereas BSP is specializing in its conventional core base comprising a Muslim-Dalit mixture whereas seeking to woo SP’s Muslim vote financial institution, SP is making an attempt to make forays into the Dalit constituency of BSP.
The April 3 programme of Akhilesh Yadav is being witnessed as an try in that path. Of late, Akhilesh Yadav had been harping on the beliefs of Ram Manohar Lohia and Dr BR Ambedkar. “Now the SP chief is expanding his reach of narrative by making Kanshi Ram a part of it,” says JP Shukla, a distinguished political commentator.
He provides that the brand new narrative of the Samajwadi Party has been set by the BSP turncoats like Swami Prasad Maurya, Ram Achal Rajbhar, Lalji Verma, Indrajit Saroj and RK Chaudhury.
LUCKNOW: In a bid to woo Dalit voters forward of the 2024 normal elections, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav will unveil the statue of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) founder president late Kanshi Ram in Rae Bareli on April 3.
The SP has began engaged on the technique, which has been laid out for undertaking Mission 2024 by going past its core Muslim-Yadav (M-Y) mixture and making inroads into the BSP’s conventional Dalit vote financial institution.
Akhilesh, going by the recommendation of his celebration MLC Swami Prasad Maurya and different Dalit leaders, can even deal with a public rally to mark the event. googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
Akhilesh has been accusing BSP chief Mayawati of working as BJP’s B workforce by fielding its candidates as determined by the ruling celebration.
Significantly, within the 2022 Assembly polls, Samajwadi Party, which managed to take its tally from 47 to 111 with 32.06% votes, had obtained the help of simply 31 per cent of Dalits together with 10 per cent of Jatavs. On the opposite hand, BSP, which may win only one meeting seat, obtained 75 per cent of the Dalit votes, together with 47 per cent of Jatavs. However, the general vote share of the BSP declined by 9.35 p.c and got here right down to 12.88 per cent from 22.23 per cent in 2017.
However, whereas the silver lining for the BSP was the consolidation of SCs in its favour, SP received the overwhelming help of Muslims (76%) and Yadavs (73%) like by no means earlier than in 2022.
SP and BSP have tied up twice in Uttar Pradesh. Their first alliance had come by means of in 1993 when SP founder president Mulayam Sigh Yadav and BSP founder president Kanshi Ram got here collectively to cease BJP from returning to energy after the demolition of the disputed construction in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, following which Kalyan Singh’s authorities was dislodged.
While the BJP was assured of returning to energy using on the again of the emotional temple wave, the SP-BSP alliance foiled BJP’s desires of coming to energy. Mulayam continued as CM for the second time in 1993 with the assistance of Kanshi Ram however couldn’t full the time period as a result of withdrawal of Support by the BSP following the notorious ‘Guest House’ episode, whereby, the then BSP normal secretary Mayawati was manhandled by the SP staff in UP State Guest House in June 1995.
The second time, the 2 regional satraps joined fingers once more to cease the saffron juggernaut in 2019 however the caste arithmetic didn’t work in favour of the grand alliance and the BJP received 62 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats by itself. While BSP received 10, SP was relegated to simply 5 seats dropping even its bastions like Badaun, Firozabad and Kannauj.
Just after the 2019 normal elections, SP and BSP parted methods blaming one another for the failure of the grand alliance.
As per the political specialists, each the SP and BSP are eyeing one another’s vote banks. whereas BSP is specializing in its conventional core base comprising a Muslim-Dalit mixture whereas seeking to woo SP’s Muslim vote financial institution, SP is making an attempt to make forays into the Dalit constituency of BSP.
The April 3 programme of Akhilesh Yadav is being witnessed as an try in that path. Of late, Akhilesh Yadav had been harping on the beliefs of Ram Manohar Lohia and Dr BR Ambedkar. “Now the SP chief is expanding his reach of narrative by making Kanshi Ram a part of it,” says JP Shukla, a distinguished political commentator.
He provides that the brand new narrative of the Samajwadi Party has been set by the BSP turncoats like Swami Prasad Maurya, Ram Achal Rajbhar, Lalji Verma, Indrajit Saroj and RK Chaudhury.
