WRITTEN BY BADRI NARAYAN |Published On:February 20, 2017 12:02 Am

One can discern a different BSP in the party’s campaign strategies in
the ongoing UP election.Now, Mayawati has been briefing the
press regularly and has also been organising frequent press
conferences.

The party is using social media as a campaign
vehicle. Slogans such as “Behenji ko aane do” are common on the party’s
social media platforms and BSP representatives are active on Twitter.
The party is also trying to woo voters through videos on YouTube and has
roped in Bollywood singers. The BSP’s social media campaign has been
projecting Mayawati as a leader who will improve UP’s law and order
situation and expand education and employment opportunities in the
state.

The term “public perception” has become part of election
discourse. Analysts believe that “perception” influences voting
behaviour significantly — much more than ground realities. The BSP could
not respond to the politics of perception that was perfected by the BJP
under Narendra Modi during the general elections in 2014. It is trying
to make amends in the current elections.

The BSP would never
publish its election manifesto earlier. It has not done so during the
current elections as well. But a manifesto of sorts does emerge through
Maywati’s election speeches. She has promised to bring in the rule of
law and emphasised development issues. She has promised that there would
be no communal riots in Uttar Pradesh if her party forms a government
in the state. Mayawati has also been trying to address the specific,
local requirements of the different regions of the state.

Like other parties contesting the UP elections, the BSP’s strategy of
giving tickets is based on caste calculations. The party has given
tickets to almost all important castes in the state. The BSP’s political
arithmetic is based on the calculation that candidates would bring a
large percentage of votes of their respective castes and social
communities. Along with these votes, the party is counting on its
traditional support base, the Dalits. The party had declared its
candidates a year ago and they have had substantial time for
door-to-door campaigns and small meetings in villages.

Social
engineering has been a major element in the BSP’s electoral strategies
since the last decade or so. In the 2007 elections, the party drew on a
Dalit-Brahmin alliance that had the support of a few OBC castes. In the
current Vidhan Sabha elections, the BSP’s strategy revolves around a
Dalit-Muslim coalition. The party has given tickets to 97 Muslim
candidates, much more than any other political party. Eighty seven Dalit
candidates, 113 candidates belonging to upper castes and 106 OBCs
testify to the BSP’s social engineering strategy, called the “politics
of sarvajan” by its cadres.

By focusing on reservation, the party
is trying to counter the BJP which has, of late, been weaning away
Dalits and OBCs from the BSP. In her speeches, Mayawati has highlighted
the statement by M.G. Vaidya during the Jaipur Literature Festival in
January where the RSS ideologue reportedly opposed reservation

ಶತಶತಮಾನಗಳಿಂದ
ಶಿಕ್ಷಣದಿಂದ ವಂಚಿತರಾಗಿ ಅಜ್ಞಾನ ಅನಕ್ಷರತೆ ಧರ್ಮ ದೇವರು ಎಂಬ ಮೂಢನಂಬಿಕೆ
ಅಸ್ಪೃಶ್ಯತೆಯ ಅವಮಾನ ಅಮಾನವೀಯ ಕೃತ್ಯಕ್ಕೆ ಬಲಿಯಾಗಿ ಜಾತೀಯತೆಯ ಮನುವಾದದ ಪಾಪ ಪುಣ್ಯ
ಕರ್ಮದ ಶೋಷಣೆಯ ಅಂಧಕಾರದ ಕಗ್ಗತ್ತಲಲ್ಲಿದ್ದ ಬಹುಜನರ ಬಾಳಿಗೆ ಜೀವಿಗಳಿಗೆ ಶಿಕ್ಷಣ
ಕಿರಣದ ಅಕ್ಷರದ ಕ್ರಾಂತಿಯ ಮೂಲಕ ಜ್ಞಾನದ ಬೆಳಕು ಚೆಲ್ಲುವ ಮೂಲಕ ಅರಿವು ಮೂಡಿಸಿದ
ಮಹಾತ್ಮ ಜ್ಯೋತಿ ಬಾಪುಲೆ ಯವರ ಜನ್ಮದಿನದ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಬಹುಜನರಿಗೆ ಒಳ್ಳೆಯದಾಗಲಿ
ಎಂದು ಹಾರೈಸುವೆ
..* ಶಂಕರ್ ತುಮಕೂರು *

A different BSP

Newly visible on social media, the party is more conscious of politics of perception.

indianexpress.com

https://www.quora.com/Jobs-will-be-offered-on-the-basis-of-…

Jobs will be offered on the basis of merit” - Modi. What merit does
Modi have when he converted his caste to which Gandhi belonged to as
backward caste if he felt that backwards did not have any merit.
He
does not do all these on his own. He does it as a stooge, slave,
chamcha, chela, bootlicker and own mothers flesh eater on the directions
of just 1% intolerant, violent, militant, shooting, lynching, lunatic,
mentally retarded chitpawan brahmin cannibal psychopaths of RSS
(Rakshasa Swayam Sevaks) for the sake of the non entitity, stealth,
shadowy, discriminatory hindutva cult rashtra.

Himanshu Acharya, studied at Mohan Lal Sukhadia University

Yes, definately it should be in india or it’s a demand of indians that
jobs should be by marit or by qualification. The person who deserve job
he/she should get that. Reservation should not be applicable in jobs. By
reservation the person who deserve the job can’t get that. Also a
uneducated people and not deserving candidate get job it is a very very
harmful for the nation as well as future of india. So it’s a humble
request to the government of india please STOP reservation.
Acharya who could not even spell merit.

While commenting on on the merit of Modi

Pankaj Shah, studied at Jadavpur University - Department of Chemical Engineering
says
How would you like yourself to be treated if you are not well?-by a
Doctor who entered medical college with bare35% marks because of
reservation &some how managed to clear degree with passing scores or
by some one who always ranked &came out as an excellent doctor-This
explains everything.

He is aware that the so called meritorious
belonging to brahmins are in top post because of shifaris as Modi says
and not because of hard work and skills like the SC/STs/OBCs/Minorities
and the poor UCs.

That is the reason this country stinks even after years of our independence.

It is because of mahatma Jotiba Phule downtrodden people got educated.
It is the merit of the Chief Architect Dr BR Ambedkar this country got
the modern constitution which allows anyone irrespective of caste and
religion could get educated while the RSS’s manusmrity wanted only the
brahmins the 1st rate athmas (souls) to get educated. kshatrias the 2nd
rate souls to rule the country, vysias the 4rd rate souls to do trade
and the 4th rate souls the shudras to work for them.The aboriginal
inhabitants the Adi shudras (SC/ST)’s as having no souls so that they
could do anything they wished to do to them. But the Buddha never
believed in any soul. he said all are equal. So Dr Ambedkar’s modern
constitution allows any body to rule this country, do trade and business
and the women who were barred to get educated as per manu could freely
get educated.Otherwise Indiragandhi could not have become the PM, VP
Singh, Devegowda, and other backwards became PMs. Now MS mayawati the ex
CM of UP became eligible to become PM. This is not tolerated by the
chitpawan brahmins.

The service sector in just 2% of our system.
But it is very important as they are the administrators in all the
fields, iincluding, judiciary. Now it is largely being filled by
brahmins. With reservation the entire sarvajan samaj including,
SC/STs/OBCs/Minorities and the poor upper castes will become part of the
system and will become the real rulers.

Mahatma Jyothiba Phule
190 th Birthday was celebrated by BSP Central parliamentary Committee in
a befitting manner at Chamaraj pet. Mr Anand organised and BSP State
Vice president R Muniappa explained the efforts of Phule to educate the
downtrodden people.Ms Laxshmi Gopinath explained about the efforts of
Savitriba Phule to educate the women.Lakshminarayan Gen Sec. formed
various samitis.