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BSP పతనం ఉత్తరప్రదేశ్ రాజకీయాలను ఎలా మార్చింది? How BSP’s Decline Changed Politics In Uttar Pradesh?
How BSP’s decline changed Dalit politics in Uttar Pradesh
Dalit voters are now divided among SP, BJP, and Chandrashekhar Azad’s party. The future of Dalit politics is more open—and more contested—than ever.
Dalit politics in Uttar Pradesh, the State that sends 80 MPs to the Lok Sabha, is at a crossroads. At least four major players have emerged to lay claim to 22-23 per cent of Scheduled Caste votes after the seemingly terminal decline of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).
After a drastic drop in the BSP’s vote share in the last three Assembly elections and the 2024 Lok Sabha elections—from over 30 per cent in 2007 to just 9.3 per cent in the 2024 Lok Sabha election—Mayawati’s key support base of Dalits is up for grabs.
What has made the BSP’s voters all the more restive is the power tussle within the party, which came to the fore with the expulsion of Mayawati’s nephew Akash Anand and his father-in-law, Ashok Siddharth, a former Rajya Sabha MP, amid fears that Siddharth was trying to split the party into rival camps.
The recent row comes even as the party is already grappling with the departure of senior leaders like Babu Singh Kushwaha, Akhilesh Das, Jugal Kishore, Swami Prasad Maurya, R.K. Chaudhary, Naseemuddin Siddiqui, Afzal Ansari, and Danish Ali. Most of these leaders have joined either the BJP or the Congress or the Samajwadi Party (SP)
https://frontline.thehindu.com/politics/dalit-politics-uttar-pradesh-mayawati-bsp-decline-chandrashekhar-azad-future-bjp-sp-congress/article69333811.ece