BSP efficiency in 4 states not upto expectations | Lucknow Information

LUCKNOW: The efficiency of Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Celebration (BSP) within the meeting elections 2023 dropped in all 4 states the place the occasion fielded candidates and contested both in alliance with the native events or alone.
The one saving grace for the occasion was the 2 seats that it gained in Rajasthan, although it was a drop by way of each the seats gained and share of votes polled from the 2018 meeting elections, the truth that the occasion didn’t even open an account in MP, Telangana and Chhattisgarh, makes the two-seat win of Rajasthan look nothing lower than a blessing for it, extra at a time when occasion nationwide president Mayawati had requested occasion employees to deal with 2023 meeting elections as a prelims to the Lok Sabha 2024 elections and provides their full to it.
Mayawati had held eight election rallies in Rajasthan touching Dholpur, Bharatpur, Alwar, Karauli, Gangapur, Nagaur and Jhunjhunu areas of the state which have Dalit-dominated pockets. BSP contested as a single occasion. It contested greater than 180 seats out of the 199 meeting seats that the state has. In 2018, it gained six seats and polled over 4% votes. The vote share in 2023 elections, nonetheless, was round 1.8%.
Former occasion chief Dharamvir Chaudhary, who was additionally an incharge for Rajasthan, places lack of a powerful native management within the state as the rationale for the setback. “Collection of candidates was mistaken. At the very least ten of them backed off on the final second. Individuals are with us however we do not need leaders in different states.”
Madhya Pradesh was one other state the place Mayawati had hit the bottom zero with 9 election rallies, every in Ashoknagar, Niwari, Damoh, Sagar, Satna, Rewa, Datia, Bhind and Morena however the outcomes didn’t match the trouble. In 2018, it gained two seats in MP and polled over 5% votes regardless of Mayawati holding solely two rallies. In 2023, the occasion gained no seats and polled over 3% votes. It had contested round 170 seats out of 230 meeting seats within the state. Other than Mayawati, senior occasion leaders and coordinators Ramji Gautam, Ashok Siddharth, Anand Kumar, Akash Anand had been the BSP’s star campaigners in Madhya Pradesh.
In MP and Chhattisgarh, BSP had an alliance with the native Gondwana Gantantra Celebration (GGP) to nook Dalit and tribal votes however the transfer didn’t work.
In June, Mayawati had introduced her choice to contest meeting elections within the 4 states both alone or in alliance with the native political outfits, as she reiterated to take care of distance from each the BJP-led NDA and opposition’s INDIA alliance. Many in her personal occasion may see the writing on the wall after her choice to go alone within the polls was introduced. She hoped to realize extra seats within the 4 states than the 2018 tally to extend its bargaining energy forward of the final elections subsequent 12 months.
Mayawati, in occasion inside conferences, has emphasised on profitable sufficient seats to grow to be part of the federal government within the states or not less than emerge because the second largest opposition occasion. In LS elections, she is already eyeing a post-poll alliance however the occasion must have numbers for any of this.
In June, Mayawati had appointed occasion Rajya Sabha MP Ramji Gautam and nationwide coordinator, and her nephew, Akash Anand because the election incharge of the 4 states. The outcomes, nonetheless, would possibly elevate a query on Anand’s rise within the occasion now, who’s seen because the second-in-command. He was lively in Rajasthan and MP laying floor for BSP for fairly someday by holding `padyatras’, highlighting atrocities in opposition to Dalits and tribals, calling out the federal government over caste-ist schemes and assembly folks.
The occasion additionally failed miserably in Chhattisgarh, the place it gained two seats in 2018 meeting elections and polled over 3.9% votes. The occasion was runner-up in 4 seats in Bilaspur division and polled extra votes than the victory margin in 5 seats of Bilaspur division and Bastar division. In 2013, it received no seats and over 2% votes. That is additionally the place Mayawati was on the hustings and held two election rallies.
In Telangana, BSP had a CM face in occasion state president, a former IPS officer, RS Praveen Kumar. The occasion additionally introduced out a manifesto for the primary time. Mayawati’s two rallies had been held in Telangana. But it surely didn’t work because the occasion didn’t win any seat regardless of contesting many of the 119 meeting seats within the state. The vote share additionally dropped from 2% in 2018 to round 1.3% this time.
Mayawati, in her rallies, has not solely tried to succeed in out to dalits by studying out to them the efforts that BSP has made for his or her growth through the years but in addition wooed OBCs by telling them that BSP was instrumental in getting the suggestions of Mandal fee carried out within the VP Singh authorities, due to which they’re getting reservation in jobs.
She additionally warned dalits, tribals, OBCs in opposition to each the Congress and the BJP and mentioned that the Congress was by no means critical on caste-based census, and if the senior leaders of the occasion are at this time advocating for it, it was solely to reap electoral advantages.