After Samajwadi Party’s (SP) “Pichhda, Dalit, Alpsankhyak (PDA)” components failed to depart a mark on the Madhya Pradesh (MP) and Rajasthan meeting polls, unemployment appears to be the SP’s new plank for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh. The celebration has given a brand new slogan: “Har Ghar Berozgar Maange Rozgaar”.
Besides, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, who additionally panned the Congress for the poor efficiency in the MP polls, stated if his celebration is voted to energy, it can shut down the BJP authorities’s Agnipath scheme.
Taking goal at Agnipath, unemployment
“I appeal to people to remove the BJP government and bring us into power. We will make sure that the Agnipath scheme is removed. Such four-year jobs can’t ensure security for the nation. The nation will be secure when the Agnipath scheme is removed,” stated Akhilesh, who’s on a two-day go to to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary constituency, Varanasi, whereas addressing the gathering throughout a programme in its Cholapur city on Monday. The former UP chief minister additionally highlighted the difficulty of unemployment and gave the slogan “Har Ghar Berozgar Maange Rozgaar”.
On the SP’s defeat in the 4 states, he stated, “Ladai abhi lambi hai (the fight is long). The states in which we lost were not well aware of the BJP’s strategy, but we are,” the Samajwadi Party chief stated.
The PDA components emerged quickly after the SP received the Ghosi by-election in UP’s Mau district in September. Analysts and a few politicians had known as it the celebration’s recent try to woo the Scheduled Castes (SCs), Other Backward Classes (OBCs), and Scheduled Tribes (ST). The SP used the identical components in the MP and Rajasthan polls but it surely got here a cropper.
BSP too fares poorly
However, the SP will not be the one regional celebration to have carried out poorly in the current meeting polls. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) secured simply two seats in Rajasthan, got here third on 110 seats in MP, netting the third largest vote share of three.38 per cent in the state, whereas ending up with a 2.5 per cent vote share in Chhattisgarh.
Both the SP and BSP failed to win any seats in Madhya Pradesh. Of the full 230 constituencies in MP, the SP contested in 71 and the BSP in 181. In the 2018 meeting polls, the SP had bagged one seat in MP.
The BSP failed to win any seat in MP this time and its vote share too dropped from 5.01 per cent in 2018 when it had bagged two seats. In three seats, its candidates stood second: Yadvendra Singh in Nagod with 17,369 votes, Balveer Singh Dandoiya in Dimani with 24,461 votes, and Kuldeep Singh Sikarwar in Sumawali with 1,56,008 votes.
Blame recreation begins
The SP, nonetheless, blamed the Congress for the poor present in MP. “Ramdhari Singh Dinkar (Hindi poet) famously said that when destruction befalls a person, conscience dies first. The loss of Madhya Pradesh is due to the indecent statements given by Kamal Nath ji about our national president Akhilesh Yadav ji. It is true for other places also where the Congress lost. Their leaders became egoistic,” stated SP spokesperson Manoj Singh Kaka.
In Rajasthan, whereas the SP was blanked, the BSP’s Manoj Kumar received the Sadulpur seat by 2,574 votes in opposition to Congress’s Krishna Poonia, whereas its candidate Jaswant Singh Gurjar defeated BJP’s Giriraj Singh “Malinga” in the Bari seat. In 2018, the BSP had received six seats in the state. The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) additionally received one seat in Rajasthan, the place it contested as a Congress ally. The celebration’s candidate Subhash Garg received Bharatpur once more, this time by 5,387 votes, defeating BJP’s Vijay Bansal.
Political analysts stated that somewhat than focusing on the age-old caste-based politics, the regional events have to perceive that they’ve to assume in a different way and be extra linked to the bottom. “BJP’s pre and post-poll exercise or groundwork is too strong. Other regional parties, rather than going overboard, should do serious thinking and act accordingly,” stated Shashikant Pandey, head of the political science division at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University.
