BSP supports Congress in Uttarakhand,Mayawati, uttarakhand, up assembly elections 2017, congress, BJP, Muslims, Dalit’s, Harish rawat, Uttar Pradesh assembly elections 2017, uttarakhand assembly elections 2017
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BSP supports Congress in Uttarakhand, Mayawati, uttarakhand, up assembly elections 2017, congress, BJP, Muslims, Dalit’s, Harish rawat, Uttar Pradesh assembly elections 2017, uttarakhand assembly elections 2017
BSP supremo Mayawati is nicely pacing her innings to return to the limelight, after two years. She had announced early on Tuesday morning that two of her party's MLAs in Uttarakhand-Sarwat Karim Ansari and Haridas-would support the Congress in the northern state's floor test.
For the former chief minister of UP who drew blank in the last Lok Sabha election, thanks to the Narendra Modi wave, the floor test on Uttarakhand was very much significant.
Apparently, it was expected that the two BSP MLAs would support Harish Rawat since they were part of the six-member Progressive Democratic Front backing the Congress government. But the significance of Mayawati's move doesn't end with this.
BSP sources said that the BSP preferred the Congress because the most important factor is the Muslim vote. The BSP needs Muslim voters to defeat the Akhilesh Yadav led Samajwadi Party government of UP and regain power in the state where the party did not win a single seat in the Lok Sabha polls despite being the main opposition party.
In 2017 too, Mayawati does not want Muslim voters to be divided between SP, BSP and the Congress — she wants them to unitedly support the BSP only.
The reason being that support of Muslim and Dalit voters had helped BSP in winning 206 seats in 2007 UP Assembly polls and getting Mayawati power.
“Congress is an anti-BJP front and by supporting Congress, BSP has given a message that it was against ‘communal forces like BJP’,” said a BJP leader. He further explained that supporting Congress is not going to affect winning prospects of BSP in UP because Congress is so far not appearing in a position to hit BSP, SP or BJP in 2017 polls.
Sources said that leader of Opposition in UP Assembly and BSP national general secretary Naseemuddin Siddiqui is camping in Dehradun to be the medium of communication between both the party MLA and party supremo Mayawati. By announcing support to Congress, BSP is expecting a better performance in 2017 Assembly poll of Uttarakhand too.