Jalandhar: When the Bahujan Party Samaj seems to fight hard at Uttar Pradesh because the LED Alliance of the Jamajwadi Party emerged as the main opposition of the Bharatiya Janata party there, the battle of polls in Punjab is also very important for the party.
has entered the alliance after 23 years in the state.
After winning the last assembly chair in 1997, BSP failed to taste the election victory in the state during the last few elections, even because there were strong sentiments between BSP cadres and supporters that the party must have an alliance for success.
However, Supremo Mayawati every time decided to go alone in the state where the party was formed.
BSP cadres understand the arithmetic elections, especially when the party cannot grow beyond one caste – ad-dharmi / ravidasia in punjab.
BSP has had the most committed and loyal cadres base in the state.
Consecutive defeat will disappoint cadres, but they have hope in their party potential which can tilt the balance in the event of an alliance.
This is the reason that the election’s success is important for the party now when the potential has not been explored has been tested after the pre-polling alliance with Shiromani Akali Dal.
This time, there will be a little room to take refuge behind the old argument “but for the alliance”.
After feeling the success of the election in the Alliance with Simranjit Singh Mann-LED Akali Dal in 1989 and then Parkash Singh Shiroman-LED Shiroman Akali Dal in 1996 the parliamentary election, the BSP alliance with Congress in 1998 the parliamentary election failed to be unpopular at that time.
While BSP only bagged one seat in 1989, he won the third contested in 1996.
However, many have changed in the past 25 years, when it has a sad alliance (badal).
In 1989 and 1996, Sikh had chosen in large quantities for the sad factions led by Mann and Badal, because they were angry with Congress.
However, this time, Akali Dal led by Badal faces its own challenge, the party must restore the lost base in its core constituency – Sikh – during the 2012-17 term of office.
BSP is also not the same anymore.
Until the 2002 assembly selection, the party was anchored by the founder of Kanshi Ram itself, which had charisma and political talents and party cadres of fresh and full of energy, dedication, and dreams.
However, after the party did not falsify the alliance and the voting stock continued in the next election, it struggled to recover its base.
Apart from the feeling between the party cadres that they were not given some of their best seats, which had an impact on BSP this time, was that Congress threw Spanner by appointing Chararjit Singh Channi as Minister of Chief, who came from the same background of the same BSP which has a base the main thing is.
Although Kanshi Ram imagined BSP as Bahujans, and not only from the scheduled caste, in Punjab, it finally became the party of the Ad-Dharmi / Ravidassia caste.
It also explains why the party can be stronger in the parts of the Doaba region where there is a strong ad-dharmi population.
It was also the reason why Channi’s elevation would conflict with BSP.
When Kanshi Ram launched BSP, he issued a lot of Congress support and for once weakening above and Punjab.
Now with Channi as the first SIK SC, Congress tried to get it back.
For BSP, it’s time to do or perish.