The SP-BSP tie-up to combat BJP
The Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party have thrown a serious
challenge to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. They have alienated the
Congress, which is the only national-level force in an
emerging anti-BJP coalition. The two biggest parties in U.P.'s opposition space
have equally carved out 76 of the 80 seats between themselves, leaving four to
the Congress and the Rashtriya Lok Dal,
The Congress has been pushed into a forlorn corner in India's most
populous State. The regional parties know it is easier to do business with a
weakened Congress than with a resurgent one. The strategy of the SP and the BSP and some other regional players to
defeat the BJP without making the Congress win is high-risk and difficult to
implement.
It is very clear from the past experience that opposition unity is a
failed experiment. This is due one and only one reason - the greed! They act as
if they were starved and grab everything causing indigestion. Let any single
party come to power, that will be better for the nation. But let it be without
anyone from regional opportunist parties.
Congress is running after the regional parties and this has affected
their national identity. There is not a single leader worth looking up to. It
is really scary to think of PM from the SP-BJP-Congress-TMC-TDP. Do any of the
leaders of these parties have any stature in the International arena?
The main reason for the alliance between SP and BSP is the humiliation
suffered by SP in the recent State elections in which SP found Congress as
baggage. Rahul Gandhi lacks the charisma as compared to Sonia Gandhi. Rahul
Gandhi flip flops on religious issues extracts less applause but more laughter.Thus this alliance was more out of
frustration against Rahul rather against BJP. BJP might put all its acts
together to gain the confidence of UP electorate to win all those seats.
Somehow we are getting more and more entrenched into personality
politics. Our media is of least help in giving a shift from this trend. The
media’s loud cry about tall leaders than proffered policies is deafening and
blinding the perceptions of majority. When will media dialogues will mature to
fore-stage the policy differences, that day will be the day our Indian politics
attain maturity. Let the media take a conscious effort to stop indulging in the
image building of preferred leaders and demeaning of other leaders. Don’t we
have enough free media to move in that direction?
The SP BSP combination might have helped in assembly elections but it
would not be the same for Loksabha elections.The people have a different view
when it comes to voting for Loksabha.The Congress is now left alone; it has to
attack the combination and BJP to win seats in UP
All alliances are for mutual benefit and no one cares about a common
programme or common ideology. Success of alliance between two parties, BSP
& SP, will be obviously dependent on caste equations and on division of
votes. Benefit of division of votes went to BJP in 2014 Lok Sabha election. No
one knows what will happen in 2019 election. Voters are aware of dangers of
such opportunistic alliances but are simply helpless. They have very little say
in this regard. But they can reject such alliances by voting for either of two
national parties, Congress & BJP.
SP and BSP are themselves not confident in winning the UP elections
independently in UP. Opposition parties who were enemies for more than two
decades can never remain united and it clearly implies that neither of these
parties have anything common for the development of UP. The only thing they
have in common is 'Keeping BJP out'. UP people must now clearly understand that
SP and BSP are joining hands just with the dream of Non BJP alternative only
and not with any agenda of UP development. In the process, they have ousted
Congress from the UP elections. The opposition are already proving themselves
that 'Mahagatbandhan' is a failed experiment at both the state level and
central level also.
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