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BJP's recipe for success in UP polls? Alliances with caste based parties together with calibrated doses of communalism
by Guest Tue Jul 12, 2016 12:00 am
The impression today is that the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah power duo is working to a “nothing will be left to chance” plan to wrap up the State in the 2017 Assembly election. The new Ministers from Uttar Pradesh have been inducted in a politically loaded Dalit-Kurmi-Brahmin combination, and also on the cards are alliances with smaller, caste-based parties on the lines of the one finalised last week with the Om Prakash Rajhbhar-led Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party.
Of course, as anyone who has watched U.P. and the BJP, and even more the Modi-Shah combine, will know, by itself this caste cocktail cannot suffice and into it will be added in due course calibrated doses of communalism so that the BJP is fully battle-ready by the time the election comes around.
An early indication of how this might work was provided by Mr. Shah himself, when at a June 13 rally in Allahabad to kick off the party’s election campaign, the BJP president warned of the repercussions that could follow the alleged exodus of Hindus from Kairana. It didn’t seem to matter to Mr. Shah that the exodus charge had been strongly and convincingly refuted by the local administration and other independent inquiries. Kairana in Western U.P. is in the neighbourhood of Muzaffarnagar, the communally volatile region that had exploded into a vicious circle of riots before the 2014 general election.
The formula looks perfect on paper, and it would be no surprise if the BJP, which polled an unbeatable 42 per cent of votes in the State in 2014, reprises the victory, even if on a smaller scale. And yet, questions remain, starting with why the BJP, a party headed by a leader single-mindedly focussed on vikas, vikas, vikas (development and only development), needs to play the same caste-communal card that it denounces in the hands of its rivals but is quite happy to employ for its own electoral gain.
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/vidya-subrahmaniam-on-uttar-pradesh-assembly-elections-an-ascent-by-default/article8835866.ece?homepage=true
Of course, as anyone who has watched U.P. and the BJP, and even more the Modi-Shah combine, will know, by itself this caste cocktail cannot suffice and into it will be added in due course calibrated doses of communalism so that the BJP is fully battle-ready by the time the election comes around.
An early indication of how this might work was provided by Mr. Shah himself, when at a June 13 rally in Allahabad to kick off the party’s election campaign, the BJP president warned of the repercussions that could follow the alleged exodus of Hindus from Kairana. It didn’t seem to matter to Mr. Shah that the exodus charge had been strongly and convincingly refuted by the local administration and other independent inquiries. Kairana in Western U.P. is in the neighbourhood of Muzaffarnagar, the communally volatile region that had exploded into a vicious circle of riots before the 2014 general election.
The formula looks perfect on paper, and it would be no surprise if the BJP, which polled an unbeatable 42 per cent of votes in the State in 2014, reprises the victory, even if on a smaller scale. And yet, questions remain, starting with why the BJP, a party headed by a leader single-mindedly focussed on vikas, vikas, vikas (development and only development), needs to play the same caste-communal card that it denounces in the hands of its rivals but is quite happy to employ for its own electoral gain.
http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/vidya-subrahmaniam-on-uttar-pradesh-assembly-elections-an-ascent-by-default/article8835866.ece?homepage=true
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