It’s ship jumping season in Uttar Pradesh. As top BJP leaders are debating tickets in Delhi, four of their MLAs in Lucknow are said to have quit the party to join the Samajwadi Party, although former BJP minister Swami Prasad Maurya claimed that they haven’t done so yet.
In the party with 312 MLAs in UP, where nearly one-fourth is expected to not get tickets because the BJP believes there is a local anti-incumbency wave against them, such developments are expected to see more changes as Politicians are looking for greener pastures. BJP spokesperson Rakesh Tripathi told News18 how 10 senior leaders from other parties, including SP (Subhash Pasi), BSP (Vandana Singh) and Congress (Aditi Singh) three sitting MLAs and four SP MLCs (Narendra Bhati, Pappu Singh) Are included. , CP Chand and Ram Niranjan) had joined the BJP.
However, these changes are also being seen in the political landscape of the ’80 vs 20′ claim made by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on voter preference in the state. Akhilesh Yadav has fought it on the basis of ‘caste alliance’ samajik nyaya (social justice).
Yadav is trying to show that it was not just the Muslim-Yadav traditional vote bank of SP but a wider network of backward castes which was leaning towards SP in the form of a series of BSP leaders and now BJP, SP was moving towards. ,
Akhilesh fought on the frames of the last election Development, The Kaam bolti hai slogan, but clearly fighting this election on the basis of caste and going back to the traditional rule book of caste politics in UP. It also shows the prominent role of Akhilesh’s father Mulayam Singh Yadav and the influence of his uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav in the election strategy.
While the pull of Swami Prasad Maurya among the 6 per cent Maurya population can be debated, and if the BJP has other senior Mauryan leaders like deputy CMs, the optics look good to make up for the loss.
Meanwhile, the BJP is pitching its campaign to the point that the state has moved beyond the caste debate. It is trying to counter-polarize the majority community against the ‘Muslim-Yadav’ polarization. This explains the CM’s remarks of the “80 vs 20” rule and his endorsement of the popular slogan of Jo Ram ko laaye hain, hum unko layenge,
CM coined a new term sanskritik rashtravad (Cultural Nationalism) Promised to build Ram Mandir, Kashi Vishwanath Corridor and make Mathura a major election issue simultaneously.
In Yogi Adityanath, the BJP has a leader who can speak freely on this matter and leaves nothing to the imagination. Will people vote according to caste rules in UP or rally on Yogi’s call – this is a more important question than the turn of the election season.
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