With lower than a 12 months left for the meeting elections in Uttar Pradesh, political events have began taking part in their playing cards to woo voters from totally different communities. Samajwadi Party president and former UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav is now making a push to allure Dalits. The SP chief final week introduced plans to organise a ‘Dalit Diwali’ on April 14, the start anniversary of the architect of India’s structure Bhimrao Ambedkar. Following that, he introduced the establishing a frontal organisation, Baba Saheb Vahini, named after the Dalit icon. A number of Dalit teams affiliated with the state’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and different outfits, nevertheless, have raised objections.
The Samajwadi Party chief had aligned with the Bahujan Samaj Party, which sees Dalits as its major constituency, within the 2017 meeting polls. But quickly after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections that noticed a surprising efficiency by the BJP in UP and throughout the nation, the alliance was damaged by BSP supremo Mayawati. Now it seems Akhilesh Yadav has determined to seize a minimum of a slice of the Bahujan Samaj Party’s conventional vote financial institution amid a rising political notion of elevated understanding between the BSP and the BJP.
Analysts say Dalit voters will play an important half in deciding the result of the 2022 meeting polls in UP and that’s the reason all events try to succeed in out to them. They additionally preserve that the BSP has misplaced some of its allure among the many group, opening up alternatives for others to step in. Many additionally really feel that Akhilesh Yadav is busy gathering “small packets” of votes. A number of days in the past, he stated he would forge alliances with small events for the meeting elections.
Speaking to News18, veteran journalist and political commentator Parvez Ahmed stated, “The politics of Mulayam Singh Yadav (Akhilesh’s father and former CM) was different from what Akhilesh Yadav is doing these days. With things changing rapidly in the last few years, Akhilesh is now trying to turn the tide once again towards the ‘Mandal Commission’ days. Akhilesh, on the one hand, is trying to dent the Hindutva vote bank and on the other, he is also trying to fill the vacuum that has been created by the inactivity of Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati. It is his political game plan ahead of the 2022 assembly polls to woo Dalits by bringing in Baba Saheb Ambedkar in his politics as even today a huge chunk of Dalits idolise Ambedkar as the one who gave them rights in society.”
However, Samajwadi Party spokesperson and legislator Sunil Singh Sajan has stated that SP has at all times stood with the weaker sections of society and fought together with them towards the forces which have been attempting to finish the reservation system and alter the Constitution drafted by BR Ambedkar. “We feel that in times when there is a danger looming over our Constitution from the RSS and its allies, we must take the message of Baba Saheb to the weaker sections of society. We will be lighting diyas (lamps) to celebrate Ambedkar Jayanti and will also constitute a force to take the message of Baba Saheb to the people. I really don’t know why the BJP is having issues when the Samajwadi Party is celebrating Ambedkar Jayanti; instead, they are the ones who have always done atrocities on the backward classes and Dalits. Our fight is against them and their allies,” stated Sajan.
Other events together with the BJP, Congress and Bhim Army are all eyeing Dalit votes for the polls. Their essential focus, nevertheless, is on the non-Jatav voters. The ruling BJP has made sizeable dent within the non-Jatav vote financial institution, however analysts say will probably be attention-grabbing to see how Akhilesh Yadav works on the bottom to draw some of these folks to his facet.
The ruling BJP has additionally introduced that Ambedkar Jayanti will probably be celebrated as Harmony Day. “There are some political parties that do all this for votes. The BJP works for the development of everyone and reaches people of every caste and religion,” BJP state vp Vijay Bahadur Pathak advised News18.
Kameshwar Chaupal, a Dalit particular person related to the BJP and Sangh’s Ram temple motion, has been appointed a member of the Ram Mandir Nirman Trust in Ayodhya for constructing the temple, which is a component of the technique of the saffron wing to woo the group, observers say. At the identical time, the Congress, which as soon as had a agency grip over the Dalit voters, is just not staying quiet. Speaking on the problem, celebration spokesperson Ashok Singh stated, “As the elections are approaching, other political parties are remembering Ambedkar and Dalits, while the most atrocities would have happened under the rule of these parties only.”
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