UP Election 2022: The assembly elections in the country’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, are now just a few months away. Every political parties, including the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Samajwadi Party (SP) and Congress, have given their full strength in view of the 2022 UP assembly elections. While Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is taking out the Vijay Yatra chariot, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is holding rallies one after the other.
The ruling BJP is also not lagging behind in the election campaign. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, state Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and party president JP Nadda are making quick tours one after the other in the state. Prime Minister Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath are continuously inaugurating all the projects in the election state. Apart from BJP President JP Nadda, all the Union Ministers including Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Dharmendra Pradhan and Anurag Thakur are spending a lot of time in planning strategy and holding public meetings in UP.
Where is Mayawati in election season?
There is one face which is missing from the electoral field of UP and that is Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayvati. Addressing a public meeting at Moradabad in western Uttar Pradesh on December 30, Union Home Minister Amit Shah wondered why BSP chief Mayawati had not started her election campaign yet. He said that Behenji elections have come, come out a little. Not to say later that I didn’t campaign. Mayawati is popularly known as ‘Behenji’.
Shah is not the only leader to question Mayawati’s absence from the electoral fray. Congress general secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, while addressing the media in Delhi on December 23, said that I do not understand why Mayawati is so silent. He has been continuously busy in public meetings since former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav began his ‘Vijay Rath Yatra’ from Ghazipur on November 17. At the same time, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has also been continuously active in the politics of the state.
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In the 2017 assembly elections, Mayawati had secured the third position by winning 19 seats. Discussions are intensifying in the political circles regarding the disappearance of Mayawati, who was last seen in the BSP’s Brahmin convention in Lucknow. Political analysts are wondering why Mayawati, who has been the Chief Minister of UP for four times, is not seen active in the assembly elections this time. That too at a time when many of their MLAs have gone to other parties and now they are left with only a few MLAs. Mayawati has not yet been able to go out on the election campaign.
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This is not the first time that Mayawati’s political inaction has become a topic of discussion in Uttar Pradesh. On October 6, 2020 Jatav Mahapanchayat members burnt an effigy of Mayawati in Agra as they were unhappy with her silence on the alleged gangrape and murder of a 19-year-old Dalit woman in a village in Hathras. Jatav Mahapanchayat President Ramveer Singh Kardam said that BSP’s mission of speaking up for Dalits ended with the death of Kanshi Ram (its founder).
Who will benefit from Mayawati’s inaction?
However, experts say that even though BSP supremo Mayawati is not seen in active mode, she cannot be completely ignored. If we talk about the last two decades, be it the assembly elections or the Lok Sabha elections, Mayawati’s vote share has not reduced by about 20 percent. Political pundits say that since the Ram Mandir movement, it has been the strategy of BJP and Sangh to bring Dalit voters into their camp and it has happened. In such a situation, if Mayawati remains inactive on this side in the coming times, then it will only help BJP.
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