Muslim voters have traditionally sided with a political party which potentially poses a formidable challenge to BJP
By Abdulhafiz Lakhani New Delhi
The political parties in Uttar Pradesh have begun preparations of the Assembly elections and have begun eyeing the Muslim vote bank.
With Bengal loss in the mind, there might be a change in the strategy of the BJP which will bring out fresh competition in the upcoming Assembly elections of 2022.
Muslim voters have traditionally sided with a political party which potentially poses a formidable challenge to BJP.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has shown that you can win big, even in Uttar Pradesh, without the support of Muslims. But as the state assembly elections draw near, the Muslim vote is once more the subject of fervid discussion.
At just under 20 per cent of the electorate, Muslim voters have traditionally been important to parties with ambitions of forming the government.
Congress is also not behind in preparations with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra seen targeting the Muslim voters.
The BJP has been regularly targeted by the Congress on matters ranging from Gorakhpur hospital doctor Kafeel Khan to the mafia don Mukhtar Ansari.
The Congress has been sympathetic to the victims of police action during the CAA protests and has been eyeing votes of people who resent BJP.
There are still more than six months left in the assembly elections, but the Congress has laid a lot of emphasis on meetings and conference with Muslim Ulemas.
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, with the help of leaders like Salman Khurshid and Naseemuddin Siddiqui, is trying her best to shore up the Muslim vote bank in UP in her favor, even if it means teaming up with either Akhilesh Yadav or Mayawati for the elections.
BSP Supremo Mayawati has so far thrown full force twice to get Muslim votes first in West UP during the 2017 elections by giving ticket to Naseemuddin Siddiqui who was at the time in BSP and then in East UP, Mayawati created a Dalit-Muslim alliance with the help of Ansari brothers but her dream of becoming the Prime Minister in alliance with Akhilesh Yadav during the 2019 elections was shattered when her Dalit-Muslim experiment ran out of gas.
Akhilesh Yadav, the National President of SP has also emerged as a strong candidate and the results of the Panchayat elections in UP have proved so.
The SP dented the BJP by winning Panchayat seats in Ayodhya, Varanasi and Mathura which are supposed to be BJP stronghold.
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