BSP forms teams for reserved constituencies
Sanjay Singh Posted online: Wed Apr 06 2011, 03:06 hrs
Lucknow : With the Assembly elections less than a year away, the BSP
has decided to take its social engineering to booth level by creating
units of its caste committees, known as Bhaichara committees, for
polling booths in all 89 reserved constituencies. These units will
work in tandem with the party's booth-level committees formed by the
district units.
The BSP has constituted separate Bhaichara committees of several
communities, like Brahmins,
Kshatriyas, Rajbhar, Chauhan, and Bania. Each of these committees has
a four-member unit for every polling booth and each of these units has
a Dalit member.
Sources said the decision was taken to manage the lack of political
cohesion found among various communities in reserved constituencies.
The party had won 62 of the 89 reserved constituencies in 2007, but
this time the situation is different because of the Congress gaining
ground, sources said.
In June last year, Chief Minister Mayawati had given the
responsibility of party affairs in reserved constituencies to PWD
Minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui, who is also party general secretary.
Siddiqui visited all the constituencies and collected the feedback
about the political situation. "It was after this that the decision to
constitute booth-level teams of every Bhaichara committee was taken,"
a party leader said.
The idea is that these units will reach out to various communities and
counter the influence of other parties. "Active teams of Bhaichara
committees at village level would counter the unhappiness or anger in
any caste against the ruling BSP for whatever reason," said the BSP
leader.
He said retaining the reserved constituencies had become all the more
important for the BSP in view of the revival of the Congress. "If
non-Dalits like Brahmins, Muslims and OBCs move towards the Congress,
the Dalit voters could also tilt. The BSP does not want that it should
be seen as a party of Dalits," he said.
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