UP 2007 Polls

UP 2007 Polls :
Bahujan Samaj Party BSP has emerged as the single largest party in the just concluded, 7 phase UP state legislature elections of 2007.
It is likely that the BSP supremo Mayawati will be elected the leader of the BSP legislature party and will become the next UP Chief Minister.
It is after a period of 16 years that a single party has emerged with a clear majority in the legislature of Uttar Pradesh.
In the first press conference after the electoral win she promised a society in which law and order is maintained and in which ordinary people can live without fear.

Mayawati claimed this victory as an indicator of the relevance of the ideology of Periyar, Jyotiba Phule, Dr BR Ambedkar and Manyavar Kanshi Ram.
She also spoke of the last 3 years of planning an electoral combination, an alliance that included a broad social section of upper caste Brahmins, Muslims. Kayastha with the Dalits and the foundation, of cadre based politics and methodical planning, which has delivered this remarkable win in the UP elections.
Till just a few days back, most of Indian media, was wrongly and erroneously predicting political dominance by the other three major contenders, Samajwadi Party, BJP and Congress based on artificial exit polls, and had been highlighting the leaders of these three parties.
BSP having won 205 seats, 4 more than the 201 required, does not need any other parties support to form the next government.
The Gandhi family held fort in the Amethi and Rae Bareilly, its traditional bastions where Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi campaigned extensively.
The seven phase election process in UP was unprecedented in the lack of polls violence and booth capturing, and a big plus for the fairness of the just concluded electoral process in the politically sensitive state, conducted by, the Electoral Commission.
Delhi based urban political analysts are claiming that Mayawati may have succeeded in delivering a stable Indian political alliance that combines Brahmins and Muslims with a Dalit leadership and thus may be an indicator for massive changes in national politics as well, along the line conceived by the master strategist Manyavar Kanshi Ram.
Earlier BSP had also won 16 seats in Delhi municipal elections.
The support of BSP is going to be crucial in the election of the next Indian president and could also trigger a new phase of politics by popular consent in Indian politics.
The electoral symbol of BSP is the elephant and the Indian elephant is now, slowly but surely, on the move.

Nagarjuna IFP, Editor
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