Tuesday 10 November 2020

Is Mayawati the weekest link in UP?

After the results of the 7 seats of UP, one thing has been decided that Mayawati has seen the biggest low in her political career in UP.
Compared to other parties, BSP has been very disappointing in the by-election.
Mayawati has been going through the bad days of politics since 2012. The party has also fallen behind in the election results. Bahanji’s power dynamics seem to have shifted and it would be interesting to see how she plans to fight the battle of 2022.

Mayawati, the BSP supremo, has been the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh for four times. The BSP has reached power with Dalit politics and had a golden period in Uttar Pradesh when its government ran with a majority from 2007 to 2012.

During this period, Mayawati executed all her projects like Ambedkar Park and Smriti Sthal Ambedkar Maidan in Lucknow, and similar constructions in Noida.

BSP failed to open the account in 2014 and finished third in 2017. In 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Mayawati took a chance as she shook hands with Samajwadi Party, forgetting the 24 years old hostilities between both the parties but the results were not favourable. 
Now the 7-seat by-election in 2020 is considered to be the trend of 2022, which seems to be disappointing for the BSP.
Moreover, in the past decade, the party's big leaders have left BSP and are still leaving. There was a time when Team 11, which was her troubleshooter, left Mayawati and after the departure of these second-order leaders, BSP seems to be getting weaker.
These 11 Commanders were -
Babu Singh Kushwaha, Swami Prasad Maurya, Naseemuddin Siddiqui, Brijesh Pathak, Jugal Kishore,  Dadu Prasad, KK Gautam, R K Chaudhary, Ram Achal Rajbhar, Tribhuvan and Ramveer Upadhyay. 
Former BSP minister Dadu Prasad says that the party and Mayawati have moved away from the idea and are working in the direction of BJP.
Journalist Rajendra Gautam, who has seen the BSP very closely, says that BSP is a synonym to Behanji and giving your opinion can be fatal in the party.

In such a scenario, it would be rather interesting to see what Mayawati plans for 2022.
- Aditi


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