BJP has once again intensified its efforts to help the backward classes in UP. The party is going to hold a big meeting with OBC leaders soon. Discussion will be held with OBC leaders in this meeting. Narendra Kashyap, minister in the UP government and president of the state OBC Morcha, said that the OBC community will be brought together and the reason for their displeasure will also be known. Kashyap also said that the organization is bigger than the government.
BJP leader Narendra Kashyap said that the organization is bigger than the government. Only if there is an organization is there a government. BJP is going to hold a meeting of OBC Working Committee on July 29, in which big leaders of BJP including Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brijesh Pathak will attend. The agenda of the meeting is how to maintain the OBC vote bank and if OBCs have shifted somewhere else due to resentment, then how to bring them back. Kashyap said that due to overconfidence of BJP workers and leaders, UP has suffered losses.
SP said- OBC’s future in PDA
At the same time, Samajwadi Party leader Udayveer Singh has taken a dig at BJP regarding the meeting of OBC community. Udayveer said, no matter how hard they try, OBCs and backward classes have now understood that the future lies in PDA and BJP only does politics of fighting among themselves. These people are fighting among themselves. The officers are so dominant that the organization is not functioning. Udayveer Singh said that in the meeting of the Legislature, the National President will decide who will be the leader of the opposition.
BJP suffered a big blow in the Lok Sabha elections
In fact, in the politics of Uttar Pradesh, every party tries to help the backward classes. This time, when the results of the general elections came, it was said that the angry backward classes had distanced themselves from the BJP this time. Many discussions started regarding this. BJP won 33 seats in UP in the Lok Sabha elections. Whereas in the 2019 elections it had won 62 seats. Earlier in 2014, BJP had won 71 seats in UP. The resentment of the backward classes is also being considered an important reason for the weak performance this time. Backward Class (OBC) population in UP is about 50% of the total population, which is an important vote bank from the electoral point of view.
This time in the UP Lok Sabha elections, SP has won the maximum 37 seats. Congress has won 6 seats. BJP’s ally RLD has won 2 seats, Apna Dal (S) has won one seat. BSP could not open account.
Parties trying to woo OBC
At the same time, the efforts of Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party to woo OBC communities are also becoming a challenge for BJP. Many OBC leaders resigned from the party and joined other parties including SP. OBC communities believe that BJP has not provided adequate representation for them and there is a need to improve the party’s policy on reservation issues as well.
What is Akhilesh Yadav’s PDA?
The PDA (Backwards, Dalits and Minorities) formula suggested by SP president Akhilesh Yadav was seen as an important strategy against the BJP in the general elections. Under this formula, Samajwadi Party has aimed to unite the backward classes, Dalits and minorities. The aim of this strategy is to challenge the NDA with the support of these communities.