New Delhi, 1/2: The first phase of voting for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections is on 10 February. As this date is approaching, the election strategy of every party is becoming clear. Since the main contest here is between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP). Therefore, the strategy of both these parties can be considered. In these, while the BJP seems to be revolving around Hindutva, the SP has woven its mathematics around the Other Backward Classes (OBC). But the question arises, which of these cards will work? And what is the status till now?
SP is trying to break the image of Muslim-Yadav
In Uttar Pradesh, when the SP was headed by Mulayam Singh Yadav, the image of the party had become a supporter of the Muslim-Yadav alliance. But now Mulayam is out of active politics. The command is completely in the hands of his son Akhilesh Yadav, who has put full emphasis on breaking the old image of the party. For this, he made an alliance with the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) of Jat leader Jayant Choudhary. Broke OBC leaders like Swami Prasad Maurya and brought them to his party by breaking them from the BJP. Along with this, many lucrative announcements were also made continuously for OBC.
The result of all this? As Bhavsinh Gurjar, a SP supporter from Fatehabad, tells The Indian Express, “Our strategy is working. The number of our supporters is continuously increasing. Now Jats are with us, Mauryas and some other OBC castes too. Some of them had gone with the BJP in 2017 and 2019. Now she seems to be returning back to the SP.’ Another party supporter Laxman Mahour says, ‘OBC (OBC) then do Dalits (SC) also want a return to the SP-RLD government. This will be proved by the election results.