Following the triumph of the INDIA bloc within the Lok Sabha elections inside Uttar Pradesh, the Congress get together goals to leverage the affect of Rahul Gandhi and orchestrate a marketing campaign designed to entice the BSP’s help base. Insiders reveal that the Lok Sabha election end result, the place the opposition alliance secured 43 out of 80 seats—Samajwadi Get together with 37 and Congress with 6—demonstrated the BSP’s incapacity to say a single seat, underscoring its diminished significance within the area.
Congress strategists attribute this to the Dalit citizens, who beforehand endorsed BSP chief Mayawati, now rallying behind Rahul Gandhi’s “Save the Structure” initiative. Moreover, there was a notion that the BSP was aligning with the BJP, additional disillusioning its base.
Congress officers observe that BSP’s followers are at the moment disenfranchised, presenting an opportune second for the Congress to launch a persistent marketing campaign to reclaim these voters.
“The SC and ST communities in UP embraced Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Save Structure’ motto, recognizing threats to their reservations and noting the BSP’s subsidiary position to the BJP. The BJP’s coercion was evident when BSP chief Mayawati expelled her nephew and political inheritor, Akash Anand, throughout the elections due to his criticism of the BJP.
By overtly supporting the BJP, the BSP has rendered itself irrelevant within the state. With out BSP’s help, the BJP’s presence within the state would have considerably dwindled. Now, BSP supporters are searching for a reliable platform. We should seize this chance. We are going to quickly provoke a marketing campaign to propagate Rahul Gandhi’s message throughout rural areas within the state,” AICC secretary in-charge of UP, Pradeep Narwal, acknowledged to ETV Bharat.
Narwal’s feedback coincided with Mayawati’s resolution to reinstate her nephew, Akash Anand, because the nationwide coordinator of the BSP.
Saharanpur’s Lok Sabha MP, Imran Masood, opined that the INDIA bloc might have secured over 60 seats if the BSP had not strategically positioned its candidates to fragment the opposition votes.
“There have been roughly 16 seats the place the BSP candidates divided the opposition’s votes, inadvertently aiding the BJP nominees. The INDIA bloc might have simply received these seats. It appears the BJP influenced the BSP’s ticket distribution,” Masood defined to ETV Bharat.
Get together planners point out {that a} proposal to mount a sustained marketing campaign to draw BSP supporters and talk Congress’s message can be deliberated between AICC and state leaders. Moreover, efforts can be made to recruit distinguished figures from the BSP.
Each Imran Masood and Congress’s Amroha candidate Danish Ali are former BSP leaders who joined Congress earlier than the nationwide elections. Likewise, former BSP MP Malook Nagar allied with Jayant Chaudhary’s RLD, which had a ballot pact with the BJP, earlier than the elections.
