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Mayawati wants to save Uttar Pradesh but not clear from whom or from what

by The Outlooker Web Desk
July 3, 2021
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This stance baffled observers because the two parties had contested the 2019 general election together in UP. Such an alliance had seemed impossible till then. But while the alliance failed to stop BJP’s sweep, it managed to pick up 15 Lok Sabha seats. BSP alone had won 10 seats in the Lok Sabha, which was among its best performances. The two parties polled an impressive 40% of the votes too.

The alliance has even greater relevance in state elections, point out astute observers of the state. But common sense normally eludes Mayawati who had called off the alliance barely a month after the Lok Sabha election. It was then attributed to pressure exerted by the Union Government and agencies like the CBI and ED, which have been investigating corruption charges against her for what seems like an eternity. It never seems to get close to closure!

What is even more baffling is that Mayawati has been largely absent in the public sphere since the 2019 election. She was missing when several cities erupted in protest against the CAA. She was quiet when Yogi Adityanath dealt with the protests with a heavy hand. She supported the abrogation of Article 370 and on the contentious Triple Talaq bill, which sought to criminalise a civil act, she walked out before voting in Parliament. Her absence from the farmers’ protests against the new farm laws has been conspicuous. The perception that she and the BJP have a tacit understanding was strengthened when BJP helped her candidate Ramji Gautham to win a seat in the Rajya Sabha, despite the BSP not having the numbers. The BJP is the ruling party in UP today, with 312 seats and over 40 percent vote share. And the upper castes, many of whom had extended their support to the BSP in 2007 are unlikely to go back to her. With the Samajwadi Party also declaring that it would go alone in 2022 and the AIMIM declaring that it would put up 100 candidates in the state, conditions seem favourable for the BJP.

AIMIM had won five seats out of the 20 it contested in Bihar. In Bengal it fielded seven candidates and all of them lost. But it seems hopeful of doing better in UP.

So, who is Mayawati out to save? Mayawati is fast becoming politically irrelevant in the state and she possibly hopes to revive her party’s fortune in UP with a little nudge and help from the BJP. It will be a small price for the BJP to pay to keep the opposition at bay.

If this assessment is correct then a more apt battle cry for the BSP will be ‘Mayawati Bachao’.

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