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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | UP elections: Minor castes hold key but can’t be taken for granted -JP Yadav

UP elections: Minor castes hold key but can’t be taken for granted -JP Yadav

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published Published on Mar 7, 2022   modified Modified on Mar 7, 2022

-The Telegraph

Akhilesh Yadav is trying to win over segments of these communities, and the extent of his success in the effort may decide his fate on March 10

Ghazipur (on UP-Delhi border), Mirzapur: Ramashankar Yadav, a retired block development officer chatting with fellow villagers at a tea shop in the Madhuban market, looks up suspiciously.

“I hope you aren’t from the godi (lapdog) media?” he asks, referring to media outlets seen widely as mouthpieces of the Narendra Modi government.

Satisfied that this correspondent doesn’t answer to that description, he opens up: “Badlav ka hawa hai (Winds of change are blowing).”

He nudges the other customers to confirm the point: “Tell the journalist.”

The customers present a rainbow of castes and communities, from the minor OBC Rajbhars and Chauhans to Dalits and Muslims. This is just the sort of social combination that Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav needs to win this election. The seventh and last phase of voting in Uttar Pradesh is scheduled on Monday.

Yadavs like Ramashankar, who have a sense of proprietorship (“hamari party”) over the Samajwadis, are keen to get the smaller castes to rally behind the “cycle” to help it ride to power in Lucknow.

In the 2014 and 2019 general elections and the 2017 Assembly polls, the BJP had brought almost all non-Yadav OBCs and non-Jatav Dalits under its umbrella to build a virtually unbeatable coalition.

Akhilesh is trying to win over segments of these communities, and the extent of his success in the effort may decide his fate when the results are declared on March 10.

Maganlal Rajbhar, sitting in front of Ramashankar, says “BDO sahib” is right.

He adds that everybody — farmer or youth — is suffering under joblessness and the menace of stray cattle, blamed widely on the state government’s crackdown on cattle trade and transport.

“Another big issue is the dilution of reservation by the BJP,” Rajbhar says, referring to the 10 per cent quota for the poor among the upper castes that the Modi government implemented ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

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The Telegraph, 7 March, 2022, https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/up-elections-minor-castes-hold-key-but-cant-be-taken-for-granted/cid/1854838


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