Bharat Jodo Yatra provides up little for Congress in UP

Express News Service

LUCKNOW: While Congress Party is enthused by the turnout on the Uttar Pradesh leg of its former president Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra (BJY), political analysts are sceptical of its tangible influence on the grand outdated social gathering’s political fortune in India’s greatest state which sends 80 members to parliament.

“BJY’s UP leg seems more of a formality. How serious the planners were about it could be gauged from the fact that only three days were allocated to the state which is politically the most crucial as compared to 20-odd days to Kerala and Karnataka. Even much smaller states like Haryana were given more time,” says JP Shukla, a political commentator.

Any BJY-like marketing campaign is futile in UP if it does not cowl the heartland. And right here, the Congress neglected its bastions of Amethi and Rae Bareli, and in addition its former seat Prayagraj. “The social gathering itself isn’t assured of its revival within the state, the place it has seen a continually dwindling fortune since 1985 when it final gained a state election with 269 seats,” he provides.

In the earlier two meeting elections, its tally was seven (2017) and two (2022) with a vote share of 6.5 % and a pair of.3 % respectively. While Rahul himself misplaced from Amethi in 2019 LS polls when his sister Priyanka Gandhi was in-charge of the social gathering in 2022 state elections.

Its intent to rejuvenate apart, the Congress’s try to mission itself because the ‘big brother’ within the opposition rank by way of the Yatra by inviting Samajwadi Party, BSP and RLD leaders to hitch the Yatra proved futile. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, BSP supremo Mayawati and RLD president Jayant Chaudhary despatched their greatest needs however declined to hitch the Yatra.

“Akhilesh Yadav has tried the technique of allying with smaller events with cheap success within the 2022 meeting polls. He will proceed to stay to it.

Besides, he has seen the pitfalls of allying with Congress and BSP within the 2017 UP polls and 2019 basic elections. By becoming a member of a discussion board arrange by Congress, even when it claims to be apolitical, Akhilesh did not wish to ship out a complicated sign,” says Prof AK Mishra, a political scientist.

“Mayawati is also going back to her core strength of Dalit and Muslim combination. And Jayant, who is looking at a long partnership with Akhilesh following the revival of RLD fortunes in 2022 UP elections, won’t go against him,” he provides.

So, because the Yatra was passing by way of the Jatland, RLD chief Jayant Chaudhury and Tikaits of Bharatiya Kisan Union endorsed it and prolonged their assist however from a protected distance solely. They gave their cadre the liberty to hitch the Yatra on their free will whereas holding themselves away on one pretext or the opposite.

The Yatra in UP, in fact, had some positives. Rahul drew the ‘better of luck’ messages from throughout the spectrum, even from sudden quarters — Ram Janmabhoomi temple clergymen Satyendra Das, Shree Ramjanmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust secretary Champat Rai and a few extra seers from Ayodhya. But, that may hardly be taken as a political rating.

Secondly, the yatra handed by way of the three western UP districts the place Congress exists solely within the reminiscence of individuals. Being Jatland, right here the political stakeholders are solely RLD and the BJP. Congress candidates have been faring as poorly as shedding their deposits for the final three many years. “So the response to Yatra in western UP can not be a barometer of its popularity or revival in the state,” says JP Shukla.

In Shamli and Baghpat, the yatra witnessed a big turnout of native Muslims. The social gathering had a quick silver line in over three many years of cloudy political fortune within the state in 2009 when a big chunk of the group backed it within the Lok Sabha polls. The Congress then got here a detailed second behind SP with 21
seats. But it is too early to name the turnout on the yatra the group’s assist to Congress in elections as SP is seen as the one champion of its trigger in UP as was witnessed within the 2022 Assembly polls.

LUCKNOW: While Congress Party is enthused by the turnout on the Uttar Pradesh leg of its former president Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra (BJY), political analysts are sceptical of its tangible influence on the grand outdated social gathering’s political fortune in India’s greatest state which sends 80 members to parliament.

“BJY’s UP leg seems more of a formality. How serious the planners were about it could be gauged from the fact that only three days were allocated to the state which is politically the most crucial as compared to 20-odd days to Kerala and Karnataka. Even much smaller states like Haryana were given more time,” says JP Shukla, a political commentator.

Any BJY-like marketing campaign is futile in UP if it does not cowl the heartland. And right here, the Congress neglected its bastions of Amethi and Rae Bareli, and in addition its former seat Prayagraj. “The social gathering itself isn’t assured of its revival within the state, the place it has seen a continually dwindling fortune since 1985 when it final gained a state election with 269 seats,” he provides.

In the earlier two meeting elections, its tally was seven (2017) and two (2022) with a vote share of 6.5 % and a pair of.3 % respectively. While Rahul himself misplaced from Amethi in 2019 LS polls when his sister Priyanka Gandhi was in-charge of the social gathering in 2022 state elections.

Its intent to rejuvenate apart, the Congress’s try to mission itself because the ‘big brother’ within the opposition rank by way of the Yatra by inviting Samajwadi Party, BSP and RLD leaders to hitch the Yatra proved futile. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, BSP supremo Mayawati and RLD president Jayant Chaudhary despatched their greatest needs however declined to hitch the Yatra.

“Akhilesh Yadav has tried the technique of allying with smaller events with cheap success within the 2022 meeting polls. He will proceed to stay to it.

Besides, he has seen the pitfalls of allying with Congress and BSP within the 2017 UP polls and 2019 basic elections. By becoming a member of a discussion board arrange by Congress, even when it claims to be apolitical, Akhilesh did not wish to ship out a complicated sign,” says Prof AK Mishra, a political scientist.

“Mayawati is also going back to her core strength of Dalit and Muslim combination. And Jayant, who is looking at a long partnership with Akhilesh following the revival of RLD fortunes in 2022 UP elections, won’t go against him,” he provides.

So, because the Yatra was passing by way of the Jatland, RLD chief Jayant Chaudhury and Tikaits of Bharatiya Kisan Union endorsed it and prolonged their assist however from a protected distance solely. They gave their cadre the liberty to hitch the Yatra on their free will whereas holding themselves away on one pretext or the opposite.

The Yatra in UP, in fact, had some positives. Rahul drew the ‘better of luck’ messages from throughout the spectrum, even from sudden quarters — Ram Janmabhoomi temple clergymen Satyendra Das, Shree Ramjanmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust secretary Champat Rai and a few extra seers from Ayodhya. But, that may hardly be taken as a political rating.

Secondly, the yatra handed by way of the three western UP districts the place Congress exists solely within the reminiscence of individuals. Being Jatland, right here the political stakeholders are solely RLD and the BJP. Congress candidates have been faring as poorly as shedding their deposits for the final three many years. “So the response to Yatra in western UP can not be a barometer of its popularity or revival in the state,” says JP Shukla.

In Shamli and Baghpat, the yatra witnessed a big turnout of native Muslims. The social gathering had a quick silver line in over three many years of cloudy political fortune within the state in 2009 when a big chunk of the group backed it within the Lok Sabha polls. The Congress then got here a detailed second behind SP with 21
seats. But it is too early to name the turnout on the yatra the group’s assist to Congress in elections as SP is seen as the one champion of its trigger in UP as was witnessed within the 2022 Assembly polls.