New Delhi, Dec 11 : Believing that a perfect opposition unity exists only theoretically in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP is focusing its strategy on getting over 50 per cent votes in the 2022 Assembly polls to blunt any consolidation against them.
To further consolidate its Hindu votes, the saffron party has also planned to highlight the construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya and redevelopment of the Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi in the run up to the Assembly polls.
To achieve the target of over 50 per cent vote share in its favour, the saffron party is working on two fronts, firstly strengthening organisation at the booth level and secondly banking on the development and welfare measures that have taken place in Uttar Pradesh in the last five years under the BJP government at the Centre and state.
The BJP won 64 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats and nearly 50% of votes in 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
The BJP won 324 of the 403 seats in Uttar Pradesh in the 2017 Assembly elections.About 40% of the total votes in Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections were won by the BJP.
“We are working on getting over 50 per cent of the vote this time also and it will be the key strategy in Uttar Pradesh.In the last 2019 Lok Sabha polls, despite facing the challenge from the biggest alliance of Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), we won 64 seats with our alliance partner Apna Dal, and also got 50 per cent vote share.
Perfect opposition unity only exists theoretically in Uttar Pradesh and on paper,” BJP Uttar Pradesh vice president Vijay Bahadur Pathak said.
To achieve the target to get over 50 per cent vote share, the BJP has launched “booth jeeto, chunav jeeto (wins booths, win elections”.The BJP has constituted committees at over 1.53 lakh polling booths in Uttar Pradesh.The ruling party also completed the appointment of ‘panna pramukh’ at each page of the electoral roll.These workers at the booth level have started reaching out to the voters with works of Narendra Modi and Yogi Adityanath government.
The upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections will see the BJP adding over 1.5 million members to the state.Currently, the BJP currently has more than 2.5 million members in Uttar Pradesh.
“As per plan, the BJP workers are making a minimum 100 new members at over 1.53 lakh polling booths, where the party has a committee, in Uttar Pradesh.During the membership drive the party is targeting to enroll a minimum 1.5 crore members in the state,” a party leader said.
On its core ideological agenda of Hindutva, the BJP has made a month-long celebration from December 13 when Prime Minister Narendra Modi will dedicate the massive redevelopment and beautification of the Kashi Vishwanath temple to the nation.
To win over all communities in the lead up to next year’s Assembly elections, the party started a programme of outreach for Schedule Caste and Other Backward Class.
The strategy states that programmes will be focused on all castes and the sub-castes of OBCs as well as SC.
Special focus will be on OBCs caste as they constitute over 50 per cent of total electorate of state.The non- Yadav OBCs have played an important role in the rise of the BJP in recent times.”OBCs are electorally important in Uttar Pradesh.This time we are also trying to win support of all OBC communities especially of non – Yadav,” a party insider said.
Among SC communities, the BJP trying to make in roads of the BSP vote bank by projecting former Uttarakhand Governor and party national vice president Baby Rani Maurya as its Dalit face in the state against former Chief Minister Mayawati.
Maurya, Mayawati and both of them belong to the Jatav dominant community.This community makes up more than half the Dalit population.
Jatav accounts for 11 percent of Uttar Pradesh’s total 21% Dalit population.Jatavs remain with Mayawati, and any decrease in Jatav’s vote bank will weaken Mayawati as well as strengthen the BJP.
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