Monday, January 16, 2012

Prospects in UP elections

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and BSP boss Mayawati has announced the list of candidates for 403 assembly seats in UP. The BSP list of candidates amply reflects that CM Mayawati has repeated the social engineering which she had built in 2007 elections and won the majority on her own for the first time.
Mayawati adopted Sarva Jan Hitay, Sarva Jan Sukhai theory in 2007 elections that yielded very good results. But after the results came, the implementation of the theory was confined to CM’s files only and flourished only corruption everywhere in her government and instead of being Dalit messiah, Mayawati started ruling the state like an autocrat.
Mayawati government has miserably failed to deliver. And Dalits of whom CM Mayawati claims to be the champion have suffered immensely in her regime so far. She did not come up to the expectation of the people. The promises made by her to the people of the state remained unfulfilled. The hope of the people from her government was dashed to the ground. The corruption became the hallmark of Mayawati government. Several of her ministers were dismissed on the charges of corruption and MLAs were expelled for indulging in criminal and corrupt activities. The massive mandate that the people of the largest state of India gave to Mayawati to rule and bring it on the path of development has been frittered way. Chief Minister Mayawati must understand that people can not be taken for granted time and again and they are clever enough to see through her dubious game plan.
The second most formidable contender for power in UP is Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party. It had very good equation with Muslim and Yadav vote bank but due to some political reasons there appeared a little apathy with SP among them. So, it is not on as strong wicket as it to be in the previous elections. Its image is already of giving protection to goonda and criminal elements.
Third contender is Bhartiya Janata. Due to the prevailing intra-party fight and weak organizational set up in the state throughout, BJP can not expect anything positive in the result of UP assembly elections for it. The point it had scored over the issue of corruption was lost because of giving shelter to the dismissed BSP minister Babu Singh Kushawaha on the charges of massive corruption, though his admission in the party remains in suspension because of public and media outcry.
The fourth and the most sincere campaigner in UP assembly elections is Congress party. Congress General Secretary and its future Rahul Gandhi MP is going from one corner to the other in UP for electioneering for almost a month. He has undoubtedly galvanized the state party machineries, leaders and workers to retrieve the party’s pre-eminent position of pre ‘90s. He may not get miraculous success but it is certain that he is going to bring the party in a position of exerting considerable influence in the case of hung assembly which is most likely to be thrown out after this election.

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