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Time of India
3 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
BSP to bank on ‘janata ka gathbandhan' to revive fortunes in 2027 UP elections
Lucknow: In the 2027 UP assembly elections, the Bahujan Samaj Party 's antithesis to political 'gathbandhan' (alliance)" will be 'janata ka gathbandhan' (alliance of people). This is the idea with which the party wants to make a comeback to power, 20 years after it formed a majority govt in UP in 2007. To make it happen, the party has started applying strategies it adopted in 2007. The basic activity was mobilising people from 'sarv samaj' (every caste and community) at the booth level and making them aware of the party's plans for growth and development. "We have started doing it again. We are informing people from various castes and communities about what all 'Behenji' after BSP formed the govt. We are also informing people about the constant onslaught being made by the Congress and the BJP on the constitutional provisions for SCs and backwards," said UP BSP president Vishwanath Pal. "The idea is to unite people from various backgrounds at the booth level against the propaganda of opposition parties. BSP plans to win by riding on 'janata ka gathbandhan'," he said. In the 2022 assembly elections, BSP won only one seat in UP (Rasra in Ballia) and polled over 12.8% of votes. The 2024 Lok Sabha elections did not do any good to the party's dropping political stakes in UP. It lost all the 10 seats won in 2019, and the vote share shrank to 9.4% from 19.4% in 2019. To tighten its grip on voters at the ground level, the party has taken to micro-planning and has started organising 'chaupals' and 'baithaks' at every booth in villages, in which senior and local functionaries are interacting with the people. Since booth is the micro-unit of electoral setup, BSP has pinned its hopes there. 'Chaupals' and 'baithaks' at the booth level may also not require local villagers to commute to some spot away from their homes to listen to party workers. "It is almost like a door-to-door meeting where maximum voters can be mobilised," said Pal.
Time of India
08-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
In a 1st, BSP state chief, not Maya, to preside over meet of UP unit
Lucknow: In a shift towards decentralisation of power within the BSP organisation, it will be the first time that the state president of the party will preside over a meeting of the state unit in the party's state of BSP national president Mayawati holding the monthly review of the UP unit of the party at the main party office in Lucknow, it will be the UP BSP president, Vishwanath Pal , doing so on is in line with Mayawati's recent reiteration of giving the "hardworking" cadre the chance to "grow and move ahead" in the party set-up. Pal said, "I do what Behenji tells me to do. She said more than a month ago that it will be either me or another senior leader reviewing the work assigned to the UP unit of the party in her absence. The upcoming meeting is just that."With Mayawati herself camping in Delhi at present, the state president will meet the district convenors of the 'bhaichara' (brotherhood) committees, formed in every district of UP by now, and the two convenors of these committees appointed in each of the assembly committees on March 25 were assigned tasks by Mayawati to start holding chaupals (meetings) in villages to make OBCs connect with the party. Operation Sindoor Operation Sindoor: Several airports in India closed - check full list Did Pak shoot down Indian jets? What MEA said India foils Pakistan's attack on Jammu airport: What we know so far The upcoming meeting will assess the performance of these committees on the task party, of late, has taken several steps to decentralise power within its organisation. It is for the first time that Mayawati has appointed three national coordinators to mobilise BSP's ranks and file in every state where it has a from that, the number of committees constituted at the block, district, and divisional levels have mostly got more than one in-charge and convenors. Besides redrawing its connection with the voters, BSP has also taken up mobilisation of its cadre where decentralisation of roles may come handy for the party, as more and more of its "committed workforce" may be accommodated in positions of responsibility.
