Congress vs Samajwadi Party!
These days, the moribund Congress in UP is busy expanding its family. Congress, which ruled UP and Delhi for decades, is marginalized. Neither the organization survives nor does the party have its own extensive vote bank. All efforts have proved futile so far. The party people had big expectations from ‘Priyanka Didi’. Priyanka entered active politics by becoming the party’s UP in-charge with the slogan ‘I am a girl, I can fight’. But even his magic did not work. In the last assembly elections, Congress got only two seats. UP Congressmen have still not recovered from the shock of Rahul Gandhi’s defeat from Amethi. Nothing could be done in UP, now the party leaders are eyeing the elections in other states. The victory of Congress can be a tonic for the Congressmen of UP.
Congress Party’s preparations for the Lok Sabha elections have started. The new state president of the party, Ajay Rai, is super active. He feels that Congress can do miracles in UP this time on the basis of Rahul Gandhi’s image. The party is again looking for its old base vote bank. Dalits, Muslims and Brahmins. Brahmin is still with BJP. Dalits are inclined towards Mayawati. Whereas the Muslims of UP have remained with the Samajwadi Party. A former Congress MP says that Lok Sabha is the country’s election, that is why the Muslim community will now vote for Congress.
What will be the impact of Rahul Gandhi’s visit?
Rahul Gandhi is roaming around the country talking about conducting caste census. But Congress does not have leaders from these sections of the society. Now how to connect the voters of those community without faces? Congress is doing homework on this these days. Congress has made a strategy to break the leaders of these communities from other parties. The central leadership of Congress wants to fight the next Lok Sabha elections in alliance with Samajwadi Party. But the people of the state unit of the party are already busy in breaking the Samajwadi Party.
In UP, Congress is eyeing Kurmi voters among the backward classes. About six percent of the voters in the state are from this community. After Yadavs, voters of this caste are the most politically influential. This community has different big leaders in different areas. There has never been any universally accepted leader of this society. Like the people of Yadav community stayed with Mulayam Singh and then Akhilesh Yadav. Voters of Rajbhar community consider Om Prakash Rajbhar as a leader. Sanjay Nishad claims to be the leader of the Mallah caste people.
Will Kurmi votes help Congress?
Congress has been running a campaign to break the Kurmi leaders of Samajwadi Party in UP. First Ravi Prakash Verma was included in the party. Then today another strong face Pramod Patel became a Congressman. He is the son of Jung Bahadur Patel. Jang Bahadur was MP from Phulpur Lok Sabha seat twice. He was a founding member of Samajwadi Party. Like Ravi Prakash Verma, he was also a close associate of Mulayam Singh. After leaving Samajwadi Party and joining Congress, Pramod Patel said that I was feeling suffocated there. It was difficult to meet Akhilesh Yadav. We were in this party because of Netaji.
After leaving Samajwadi Party, former MP Ravi Prakash Verma had also said the same. Verma was the national general secretary of Samajwadi Party. After leaving the party, these leaders accusing Akhilesh of lack of leadership ability is also a political message. In such a situation, is an alliance possible between Congress and Samajwadi Party?
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