Samajwadi Occasion chief Akhilesh Yadav is leaving no stone unturned to maintain the BJP on the tenterhook forward of the upcoming Meeting bypolls. Whereas Congress was main the INDIA bloc, Yadav caught to his PDA ideology – Pichhda, Dalits and Alpsankhyak (Backwards, Dalits, and Minorities) and led his social gathering to a shocking victory in opposition to the BJP within the not too long ago concluded Lok Sabha elections. After the Lok Sabha polls, the BJP scrambled to place collectively the lacking items aiming to stage a comeback within the upcoming meeting bypolls for 10 seats.
After acing the PDA method, Akhilesh Yadav has performed one other social engineering masterstroke aiming to lure the Brahmin voters who’ve been voting for the BJP and have performed an important function in making Yogi Adityanath the Chief Minister for the second time. Uttar Pradesh has 12% Brahmins who principally vote for the BJP. Nevertheless, Akhilesh Yadav is nicely conscious that almost all mark within the 2027 meeting polls can’t be acquired with out the help from the higher castes together with the Brahmins. Thus, Yadav performed the ‘BAP’ – ‘Brahmin, Alpsankhyak and Pichhda’ – card which can echo within the Uttar Pradesh meeting difficult Yogi Adityanath’s may for the subsequent three years till the 2027 meeting elections.
Akhilesh Yadav appointed seasoned politician Mata Prasad Pandey because the Chief of the Opposition, thus indicating that his social gathering is just not averse to Brahmins. This reveals that the Samajwadi Occasion is now specializing in caste equations to win the polls moderately than specializing in the Yadavs and Muslims alone. This was evident within the not too long ago concluded Lok Sabha polls the place the Samajwadi Occasion fielded solely 4 Muslims and 5 Yadavs of the 62 Lok Sabha seats it contested.
The SP additionally appointed Kamaal Akhtar because the chief whip and Rakesh Kumar alias R Ok Verma because the deputy whip within the meeting. By making these appointments, Akhilesh Yadav performed the ‘Brahmin, Alpsankhyak and Pichhda’ (BAP) card, thus sending a sign to the 12% vote financial institution that they’re being keenly watched by the Samajwadi Occasion.
Who Is Mata Prasad Pandey?
Mata Prasad Pandey is a seven-time MLA of the Uttar Pradesh Meeting. Pandey, 82, replaces SP president Akhilesh Yadav, who resigned as MLA from Karhal seat in Mainpuri district after he was elected to the Lok Sabha from Kannauj. Pandey, a Brahmin chief, has held the submit of Uttar Pradesh Meeting speaker twice — 2004-2007 and 2012-2017. He was first elected as MLA in 1980 after which in 1985 and 1989. He served as state well being minister between 1990 and 1991 within the then-chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav’s authorities. He was the labour and employment minister in Mulayam Singh Yadav’s authorities between 2002 and 2004.
