LUCKNOW: Just over a year in the past, because the 2019 Lok Sabha elections started dawning, Mayawati started discovering herself in a fix — smarting below large election defeats each the Centre and state, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief was once faced digital political obliteration.
She had now not most effective lost the 2012 Assembly elections to Samajwadi Party, BSP was once diminished to zilch within the Lok Sabha elections of 2014 and down to only 17 seats within the Assembly elections in 2017. She had even surrender her personal Rajya Sabha seat and the birthday celebration’s national standing has additionally been below danger.
It was once at this juncture that Mayawati made up our minds to let bygones be bygones and got into an informal alliance with Samajwadi Party. The end result stunned even the alliance as they defeated the apparently invincible BJP in 3 Lok Sabha by-elections in 2018, particularly Gorakhpur, thought to be the stronghold of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath.
Political observers say it was once most probably her compulsion to stick related within the Indian political state of affairs and spice up the sagging morale of her cadres and citizens -- a lot of whom had shifted allegiance to the BJP in 2014 and 2017 – that she made up our minds to keep her 26-year-old enmity at the back of and join hands with SP.
On Friday, these tentative steps via Mayawati early remaining year resulted in a large demonstration of Opposition unity as she shared the stage with Mulayam Singh Yadav in Mainpuri, praising the SP patriarch and inquiring for votes for him.
Yet another defeat this time would go away its grassroots workers bruised and its committed votebank directionless, pushing them to look for more secure platforms the place it feels safe on social, political and financial fronts.
It is in this backdrop that the alliance solidified and, on Friday, the 2 towering leaders from UP praised each and every different at Mainpuri, rekindling the hopes of a 1993 re-run, when the 2 parties had been in combination, to test BJP.
She had now not most effective lost the 2012 Assembly elections to Samajwadi Party, BSP was once diminished to zilch within the Lok Sabha elections of 2014 and down to only 17 seats within the Assembly elections in 2017. She had even surrender her personal Rajya Sabha seat and the birthday celebration’s national standing has additionally been below danger.
It was once at this juncture that Mayawati made up our minds to let bygones be bygones and got into an informal alliance with Samajwadi Party. The end result stunned even the alliance as they defeated the apparently invincible BJP in 3 Lok Sabha by-elections in 2018, particularly Gorakhpur, thought to be the stronghold of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath.
Political observers say it was once most probably her compulsion to stick related within the Indian political state of affairs and spice up the sagging morale of her cadres and citizens -- a lot of whom had shifted allegiance to the BJP in 2014 and 2017 – that she made up our minds to keep her 26-year-old enmity at the back of and join hands with SP.
On Friday, these tentative steps via Mayawati early remaining year resulted in a large demonstration of Opposition unity as she shared the stage with Mulayam Singh Yadav in Mainpuri, praising the SP patriarch and inquiring for votes for him.
Yet another defeat this time would go away its grassroots workers bruised and its committed votebank directionless, pushing them to look for more secure platforms the place it feels safe on social, political and financial fronts.
It is in this backdrop that the alliance solidified and, on Friday, the 2 towering leaders from UP praised each and every different at Mainpuri, rekindling the hopes of a 1993 re-run, when the 2 parties had been in combination, to test BJP.
Mulayam- Mayawati freeze frame makes history
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