From allying with the Indian Nationwide Lok Dal (INLD), a celebration with a Jat voter base, to blaming the group’s “casteist mindset” for her occasion’s loss in Haryana, Bahujan Samaj Social gathering (BSP) chief Mayawati has come a full circle inside weeks.
Chatting with reporters in New Delhi on the demise anniversary of BSP founder Kanshi Ram, Mayawati stated Jats’ “casteist mentality in the direction of Dalits” has modified in Uttar Pradesh because of the BSP, however has not fully modified in Haryana. “Their mentality (in the direction of Dalits) must change because it has in UP, the place Jats turned MLAs and ministers in my authorities’s tenure in 2007,” she stated.
Mayawati went on to argue that the Jats who have been offended with the BJP on account of its authorities’s “anti-farmer” insurance policies, largely selected the Congress as an alternative of the INLD-BSP alliance. Therefore, she argued, whereas the INLD couldn’t pool in sufficient Jat votes for BSP candidates, the BSP was in a position to switch its Dalit votes to INLD candidates.
Within the Haryana Meeting elections that simply ended, the INLD contested 53 seats and gained two – Dabwali and Rania – with a 4.14% vote share. The BSP contested 37 seats, together with all of the 17 SC-reserved ones within the state, however drew a clean, with 1.82% vote share.
Mayawati stated the rift throughout the Chautala household had additionally harmed the INLD’s and therefore the BSP’s prospects, serving to the BJP. “Our candidates acquired solely Dalit votes however not Jat votes. We may have gained just a few seats even when just a few Jats (2-3%) voted in our favour,” she stated.
It isn’t the primary time Mayawati has blamed allies, particularly for non-transference of votes, for poor exhibiting by the BSP in an election.
Following the bitter break-up with the Samajwadi Social gathering (SP) after the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the place her occasion gained 10 seats, Mayawati claimed a assessment of the outcomes confirmed that her occasion had not gained from the alliance. “The SP’s core voters – the Yadavs – drifted away from the alliance even in SP strongholds,” she stated.
The BSP chief’s declare was primarily based on the truth that the SP’s Yadav candidates in 5 seats – Jhansi, Kannauj, Mainpuri, Badaun and Firozabad – acquired lower than half of the mixed variety of votes that the SP and BSP candidates acquired in 2014.
Then, following its worst-ever efficiency in UP Meeting elections in 2022, profitable one seat with a 12.8% vote share, Mayawati blamed the Muslims, saying by throwing their weight behind the SP, they’d prompted the higher caste and OBC Hindu votes to consolidate in favour of the BJP. She stated the worry of “the SP’s jungle raj” additionally performed a task.
“To defeat the BJP, Muslims shifted from the ‘tried and examined’ BSP to the SP. This improper resolution price us closely because the worry of jungle raj below the SP amongst BSP supporters, upper-case Hindus and OBCs made them consolidate in favour of the BJP… It was a harsh lesson… We’ll preserve this expertise in thoughts and alter accordingly,” she stated, whereas insisting that Dalits, particularly from the Jatav group, firmly backed her.
The BSP supremo lashed out at Muslims following the BSP’s drubbing within the current Lok Sabha polls too, the place it drew a clean. Claiming the group “misunderstood” her occasion, Mayawati stated the BSP will now give alternatives to Muslims solely after a lot thought. The remarks got here after the BSP didn’t achieve any benefit from fielding 35 Muslim candidates – probably the most by any occasion – in a bid to broaden the occasion’s assist base.
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