Congress Masterplan: On the agenda of BSP, the party has made a masterplan to attract Dalits
The Identity Of The BSP : Blue flag, elephant mark..’ Yes, it was the identity of the BSP in the very large scheduled caste category, which is getting a dent. The weak elephant is seen standing in Mayawati’s paws, but all Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, will see blue armour around their throats.
Not only this, ‘Jai Bhim’, which was once the moral address of BSP leaders, is now also the political-strategic agenda of the Congress.
Congress is luring the Dalits of the country
The Congress is running the Jai Bapu, Jai Bhim, Jai Constitution campaign to keep an eye on the scheduled caste class across the country, with the hope that as soon as it joined the SP in the Lok Sabha elections to publicise the BJP for Ambedkar, running an anti-reservation and anti-constitutional campaign among the Dalit class, in the same way Dalits across the country can be mobilised with them.
Mayawati has seen the partial success of this experiment of the Congress in 2024. Maybe that’s why he’s attacking the Congress more than the BJP and the SP. Dalit voters remained strongly associated with the Bahujan Samaj Party for a long time.
SP-Congress together fought elections in 2024
With their help, the BSP has certainly established some popular bases from Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Punjab to Delhi. In the last few years, the BJP won the trust of the Dalits and the BJP became much stronger. But in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the SP and the Congress fought together.
The narrative he set up by calling the BJP anti-reservation and anti-constitutional had a lot of impact. The BJP could not touch the absolute majority figure, while the SP got 37 and the Congress got six from one parliamentary seat.
Of course, in the subsequent assembly elections in Haryana and Maharashtra, the tendency of the Dalits left the Congress and then the BJP, but Congress strategists believe that after the BSP weakened, the Dalit voter is not permanently connected anywhere.
Congress is pulling the Dalit vote bank towards it
Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar is certainly trying to win the Nagina seat in the Lok Sabha, but the Congress feels that its old Dalit vote bank can be re-attracted just like the Lok Sabha elections.
This is the reason why the Congress launched a nationwide campaign calling Home Minister Amit Shah’s remarks in the winter session of Parliament an insult to Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar. Bapu, Jai Bhim, Jai Constitution campaign is being run all over the country.
