Samajwadis ready to dent BSP's brahmin base
Sep 22nd, 2010 - Amita Verma | Lucknow
The Samajwadi Party is now planning to hit the Bahujan Samaj Party
where it hurts the most, the party is ready to target the brahmin
votebank that had catapulted the BSP to power in 2007.
The Samajwadi Party has now promised brahmins "greater representation"
in the ticket distribution for the next Assembly elections and
"greater respect" within the party set up.
"Are you aware that in the Mayawati regime, more than 1,600 brahmins
have been booked in false cases for alleged atrocities on dalits?
Among the upper castes, brahmins have been at the receiving end in
maximum cases and this, when the BSP claims to be a pro-brahmin
force," said senior SP leader Shivpal Singh Yadav.
The SP leader went on to say that brahmin leaders and ministers in the
BSP were subjected to humiliation on a regular basis and were targeted
if they even dared to complain about this. He added that brahmins had
the power to sway public opinion and were known to be highly
intellectual.
"We are confident that brahmins will join the Samajwadi Party in
uprooting the BSP in the next elections," he said.
The Samajwadi Party has now asked the Samajwadi Brahmin Sabha, one of
its subsidiary organisations, to prepare a list of brahmins who had
been unfairly treated in every district.
"We are already compiling the list and will release it sometime next
month. The result will shock all those who think that the BSP is a
pro-brahmin party. Except for a handful of brahmin leaders and
officers, the Mayawati government has treated all brahmins with
disdain and we will expose the truth before the people," said national
president of the Samajwadi Brahmin Sabha, Vijay Tiwari.
The SP is also drawing up a list of brahmin leaders who are
disillusioned with the BSP and is keen to wean them away.
Mr Tiwari further points out that the Samajwadi Party has always held
brahmins in high esteem and that fact that leaders like Janeshwar
Misra, Rama Shankar Kaushik and Brij Bhushan Tiwari formed a part of
the party's decision making body, proves this.
This incidentally, is the first time that the Samajwadi Party is going
all out to woo brahmins.
The party, until now, had relied only on the Muslim-Yadav combination
to bring itself into power.
"We want to broad-base the party and bring in new vote banks in order
expand our reach," said a senior leader.
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