Sheila Dikshit may be Congress CM Candidate in UP Polls, Congress CM candidate UP Polls, Sheila Dikshit, Sonia Gandhi, AAP , Rahul Gandhi
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Sheila Dikshit may be Congress CM Candidate in UP Polls, CongressCM candidate UP Polls, Sheila Dikshit, Sonia Gandhi, AAP, RahulGandhi
Speculations were today rife about Congress planning to make three-time Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit the party's chief ministerial nominee for next year's assembly election in politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh, once its stronghold.
Election strategist Prashant Kishor had recommended that Dikshit should play a major role in the party's poll campaign in the state as she is a prominent Brahmin face and could help Congress regain support of the electorally sizeable and significant community, whose support determines the poll outcome in several seats.
The community, a traditional vote bank of the Congress, shifted allegiance to BJP in the aftermath of the emergence of Mandir-Mandal politics. A large chunk of Brahmin votes had also gone to Mayawati's BSP in the past when she gave tickets to many candidates belonging to the community.
The Congress is trying to regain the lost ground in UP where currently it has just 30 MLAs in the 403-member assembly. Congress could win only two seats of Amethi and Rae Bareli in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls represented by Rahul and Sonia Gandhi respectively.