The president of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Uttar Pradesh unit, in a report to the high command, listed among other things a significant decline of eight per cent in the party's vote share across the state, a diminished backing from Kurmis and Mauryas, and a reduction in Dalit votes as reasons for the party’s poor performance in the Lok Sabha …
Young leadership is taking centre stage in Dalit politics around the country and certainly in Uttar Pradesh. Anand launched his campaign on April 6 from the Muslim-Dalit dominated Nagina constituency from where another upcoming Dalit leader, Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad is contesting his first Lok Sabha election as the nominee of four-year-old Azad Samaj Party that he founded in …
With just one seat to its name, Bahujan Samaj Party has displayed its most dismal performance in Uttar Pradesh. Political analyst Sharad Pradhan had told India Today in an earlier report that “BSP chief’s self-centered ideology, a shift of major leaders, ineffective conventional approach and Twitter-based politics has badly affected the party’s image on the ground.” Dr. Lalji Prasad Nirmal, …
