http://www.indianexpress.com/news/2012-bsp-eyes-reserved-constituencies/639734/2012: BSP eyes reserved constituencies
Sanjay Singh Posted online: Tue Jun 29 2010, 02:09 hrs
Lucknow : In view of the 2012 Assembly elections, Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister Mayawati has started laying special focus on reserved
Assembly constituencies. Wiser after the poor show in the last Lok
Sabha polls, when the BSP won only two seats in the reserved category,
Mayawati seems to be in no mood of taking any chances this time
around.
"Taking a lesson from her party's defeat in most of the reserved seats
in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, the CM does not want to leave any
room for Opposition parties, particularly the Congress, to grow
further in these (reserved) constituencies. She has asked her trusted
lieutenant and state PWD Minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui to concentrate
on party affairs in reserved constituencies," said a BSP leader.
The BSP had created a history of sorts in the 2007 Assembly polls
after it clinched 62 of the total 89 seats that went to polls under
the reserved constituencies.
Party insiders said the CM has separated the party affairs of the
reserved Assembly constituencies from the BSP's main organisation.
Siddiqui has been asked to constitute organisational committees at the
booth, sector and Assembly levels, besides forming Bhaichara
committees in these constituencies, said the leader, adding that
Siddiqui not only has good knowledge of the demographic structure of
the reserved seats, but is also a known face among party cadres.
Besides, Siddiqui is one BSP leader who can ensure proper coordination
among the party cadres and the caste-based "Bhaichara committees" of
the party.
Sources said the BSP's top priority is to first strengthen its "social
engineering formula" that, it said, had provided the thrust for its
succcess in the 2007 Assembly elections. The party had then credited
the same formula for its success in reserved constituencies, saying it
was the voters from upper castes who made the difference in these
constituenices.
Mayawati has already asked the party's "Brahmin mascot" and national
general secretary Satish Chandra Mishra to reconstitute the Brahmin
Bhaichara committees across the state. "Mishra will start an extensive
tour of the state in September. Besides the 10 Assembly
constituencies, he will focus on at least two reserved constituencies
each month," the BSP leader said.
The exercise is meant to counter the Congress's possible growth in
reserved constituencies. "The plan is to check Dalits tilting towards
the Congress. If the BSP is successful in wooing the Brahmins and
Muslims, it would be a clear indicator that the BSP will win these
seats. It would then be difficult for Opposition parties like
Congress, to target the BSP Dalit votebank," said the leader. Mayawati
has also started centralising her party's old horses from different
states to UP. Veer Singh, who was party
coordinator in Maharashtra, is now handling party affairs in Agra
zone. Similarly, Sewa Ram from Uttarakhand and Narendra Patel from
Gujarat have been asked to expand the party's base in Kanpur and
Jhansi zones, respectively.
BSP protest against fuel price hike on July 6
In protest against the recent hike in the prices of petrol, diesel,
cooking gas and kerosene, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will hold
demonstrations at all its district headquarters on July 6. The
decision was taken at a meeting between BSP chief Mayawati and her
party functionaries on Monday.
Mayawati said the increase in prices of petrol, diesel, cooking gas
and kerosene made it clear that the Congress had nothing to do with
the common people.
She alleged this particular step was meant to benefit those
capitalists who enjoyed good relations with the UPA and its allies and
who provided them with financial support to contest elections. She
said the price hike would fuel the fire of inflation and the decision
to free petrol prices from administrative control would lead to
increase in the price of petrol at regular intervals. ENS
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