SP tries to wean brahmins from BSP
July 12th, 2010
The war over brahmin votes in Uttar Pradesh is intensifying.
The Samajwadi Party has decided to hold conventions in all districts
of the state to "awaken brahmins and make them aware of the
anti-brahmin policies being pursued by the ruling Bahujan Samaj
Party".
According to Mr Manoj Pandey, state president of the SP's Brahmin
Mahasabha, the Mayawati government has been deliberately sidelining
brahmin icons and leaders while it has been promoting dalit icons
through various parks and memorials.
"The BSP talks of 'Sarvjan' but has it installed even one statue of
any brahmin icon? In fact, statues of upper caste icons like Acharya
Mahavir Prasad Dwiwedi, Pandit Suryakant Tripathi Nirala and Chandra
Shekhar Azad are crying for maintenance and upkeep. This proves that
the BSP government wants to take brahmin votes but ignore the
community and its icons," he said. The SP Brahmin Mahasabha will be
holding conventions in Sultanpur, Barabanki, Kanpur, Kanpur Dehat —
now Ramabai Nagar, Haidergarh, Bahraich, Shravasti, Balrampur, Gonda
and Mirzapur this month and other districts will be covered over the
next two months.
The Samajwadi Party obviously wants to cash in on the reported
disillusionment of brahmins with the BSP.
"Brahmins close to one particular leader may have benefited in the
Mayawati regime but the community, as a whole, has been humiliated and
neglected. Even in the bureaucracy, it is only one set of brahmins
officers who have got key postings while others languish in the wings.
This indicates that the BSP has not been able to shed its anti-upper
caste mentality and all this talk of Sarvjan replacing Bahujan is only
designed to mislead the people," says another brahmin MLA of the
party.
The BSP, on the other hand, has been going out of its way lately to
keep the brahmin community in good humour. Though the party has also
been making an all out effort to woo the Thakurs and Vaishyas and
expand its vote base, it is taking all care not to irk the brahmins
who had helped it form government in UP in 2007.
"No matter how hard the SP tries, it will not be able to make inroads
into our brahmin vote base," says a brahmin minister in the BSP
government.
Everyone in the community knows how SP has treated its brahmin leaders
like Janeshwar Misra and Rama Shankar Kaushik and no one will be
fooled. We are also trying to consolidate our base among brahmins so
that there is no erosion," says a brahmin minister in the BSP
government.
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