‘PDA’ the ‘actual hero’ in SP’s success story
LUCKNOW The ‘PDA’ technique emerged because the ‘actual hero’ within the Samajwadi Celebration’s unprecedented success in UP with its best-ever efficiency within the Lok Sabha elections, bagging 37 of the 80 seats right here and rising because the single-largest occasion within the state.
Whereas the SP carried out the ‘Picchhda, Dalit, Alpsankhyak’ (PDA) technique in its ticket distribution for 2024 polls, a better have a look at the occasion’s victory tally signifies that the ‘PDA’ was distributed considerably proportionately within the record of 37 of its victories. (File Photograph)
After the INDIA bloc’s first assembly in New Delhi post-2024 election outcomes on Wednesday, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav wrote on X: “The INDIA bloc will keep collectively…” He added: “The INDIA bloc will endeavour to broaden the ‘PDA’ and battle for them.”
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Whereas the SP carried out the ‘Picchhda, Dalit, Alpsankhyak’ (PDA) technique in its ticket distribution for 2024 polls, a better have a look at the occasion’s victory tally signifies that the ‘PDA’ was distributed considerably proportionately within the record of 37 of its victories.
Of the 37 SP wins, 21 winners had been OBCs (together with 5 Yadavs), seven Dalits, 4 Muslims, and 5 higher caste candidates. Even inside OBCs, whereas distributing tickets, the SP gave tickets to Kurmi-Patel, Kushwaha-Shakya-Saini, Nishad, Yadav, Jat, Gurjar, Rajbhar, Pal, and Lodh candidates. Among the many higher castes, SP gave tickets to Brahmin, Thakur, Vaish, Khatri, Bhumihar candidates and among the many Dalits to Pasi, Jatav, and Valmiki candidates.
The SP shattered its M-Y (Muslim-Yadav) picture that it held since lengthy.
Akhilesh Yadav coined the time period ‘PDA’ just a few months after the 2022 UP meeting polls, and it grew to become a buzzword in Uttar Pradesh and elsewhere.
Within the 2022 polls, SP started increasing past its M-Y (Muslim-Yadav) vote financial institution to sew collectively a caste coalition of non-Yadav OBCs, Yadavs, Dalits and Muslims.
Retaining this components for the 2024 elections, Yadav named it ‘PDA’ — Pichhada (backwards together with Yadavs and non-Yadavs), Dalits and Alpsankhyaks (minorities, largely Muslims).
Bolstering it with the caste census demand, he launched a PDA-caste census bus yatra throughout the state in June.
“Samajik Nyay Jaatiya Janganana Rasta (caste census is the trail to social justice)” was boldly printed on all sides of the purple bus that Yadav rode throughout the state.
He galvanised the occasion’s agenda, marketing campaign, and even the re-organisation and ticket distribution plan round PDA and caste census, taking part in the caste card as a counter to the BJP’s Hindutva and Ram Mandir. By the point, INDIA bloc pact was finalised and the Congress additionally took up the caste census demand, which added to the SP’s PDA agenda.
Underneath the SP-Congress pact, the SP bought 63 seats and the Congress 17. The SP contested 62 seats because it gave one from its share to the TMC (Bhadohi). Of the 62 seats, SP gave tickets to OBCs on 32 seats (together with 5 Yadavs), 15 to Dalits, 4 to Muslims, and 11 to Hindu higher caste candidates.
