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‘Suraksha’ plank finds particular resonance in Uttar Pradesh -JP Yadav

-The Telegraph

For the better-off upper castes, it has acquired the context of the safety of their sisters and daughters

Bareilly, Rampur: Sitting outside a small medicine-cum-stationery shop at Khirka village in Bareilly district, Rakesh Gangwar, Ramdas Kashyap and Puranlal Gangwar unhesitatingly declare their support for the “phool” (lotus).

Each lists the reasons almost in the same order, as though they had prepared beforehand for the question.
 
The top reason for all three — all of them OBC voters — is “suraksha” (security), a term used to portray a better law-and-order situation on Yogi Adityanath’s watch compared with predecessor and principal opponent Akhilesh Yadav’s.

It’s a claim Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Adityanath have been making from every platform, drawing accusations of fear-mongering about a Samajwadi Party victory at a time when joblessness, farmer anger and rising prices have fuelled anti-incumbency.

The “suraksha” refrain, which has unmistakable communal overtones, appears to have swayed a sizeable segment of voters who fear that a return of Akhilesh would mean a return of “gundagardi” (hooliganism). It’s the same card — of “jungle raj” — that the BJP had played in the last Bihar polls against Lalu Prasad and his son Tejashwi Yadav.

Kashyap, who gives his age as 62, says the days of “gundagardi” are over. “Earlier our buffaloes used to be stolen; now such things don’t happen.”

“There’s peace and this is the biggest issue,” cuts in Rakesh, a man in his 50s. Like the rest, he too lists the free rations distributed since the Covid outbreak, houses built under the PM Awas Yojana and the cash doles for marginal farmers and the old.

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