UP Election 2022: Whose game will be played in western UP, whose game will be spoiled by Dalit voters
In the first round of assembly elections being held in western Uttar Pradesh, where all the parties are applying their strength for vote bank of Jato and farmers. At the same time, the silence of Dalit votes can feed a big political gulp. Dalits constitute more than 20 percent of the population in this entire region, which has the power to change the fate of any party.
In western UP, there are scheduled caste communities like Jatav, Khatik, Bhuiyar, Pasi, Valmiki, but more than fifty percent of these voters are considered to be Jatav. The Valmiki, Bhuyar fraternities have been occupied by the BJP. In such a situation, this time the target is Jatav. BSP has been dragging this large vote bank towards itself in the previous elections. But this time in which direction this vote bank changes, it will be decided only after the election results. In the year 1993, BSP entered the electoral fray for the first time. Its vote share in this election was 11.12 percent. The BSP had won 67 seats.
The BSP had got 30.43 percent of the votes, in the 1996 elections the vote share increased to 19.64 percent. The vote share reached 23.06 per cent in 2002 and won 98 seats. After this, in the year 2007, due to social engineering, the BSP came to the government on its own. When BSP got 30.43 per cent votes and with 206 seats it won power with absolute majority. But in the 2012 elections, its political math got messed up and the SP got its benefit. But after the Muzaffarnagar riots, the BJP started planting its flags here.
Sant Ramanujacharya had got a big success in the last assembly elections due to the political fizz of the BJP. But this time through the farmers movement, the whole math seems to be spoiled. That is why all the leaders of BJP except Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and Yogi Adityanath, all others are busy in this entire area with full force. The eyes of both the alliance and the BJP are on the Dalit voters Akhilesh and Jayant, the leaders of the SP-RLD alliance, have put their entire camp in the same place. While both the BSP and the Congress are making a difference in the election battle. Both the coalition and the BJP are eyeing Dalit voters.
In second format you will play better than before. Hindu votes are Brahmin Panjaji Vaish, Pal, Baghel, Yadav, Kori, Kashyap, Jatt, Gurjar castes. Dalits are around 21 percent in this belt. 13 percent Yadavs, 5 percent Kurmis, 17 percent Jatavs, 15 percent Brahmins, 13 percent Thakurs, 19.3 percent Muslims and 19.7 percent are other castes. In the districts of Saharanpur, Bulandshahr, Ghaziabad, Meerut, Muzaffarnagar etc. Dalit voters also have The number is considerable.
According to an estimate 57 thousand in Siana, 70 thousand in Secunderabad, 70 thousand in Anupshahar, 62 thousand in Shikarpur, 58 thousand in Khurja, 30 thousand in Dibai, 60 thousand in Bulandshahr, 80 thousand in Muradnagar, 55 thousand in Modinagar, Sahibabad 80 thousand in Ghaziabad, 75 thousand in Siwalkhas, 40 thousand in Siwalkhas, 52 thousand in Sardhana, 71 thousand in Hastinapur, 65 thousand in Kithor, 65 thousand in Meerut Cantt, 13 thousand in Meerut city, 75 thousand in Meerut South, Agra, Etmadpur 70 thousand in Agra Cantonment 95 thousand in Agra South 40 thousand in Agra North 45 thousand in Agra Rural 80 thousand in Fatehpur Sikri 60 thousand in Khairagarh 40 thousand in Bah 35 thousand in Budhana 32 thousand in Charthaval 55 thousand in Khatauli, 47 thousand in Meerapur, 22 thousand in Muzaffarnagar, 75 thousand in Purkaji, 35 thousand in Shamli and 60 thousand in Thana Bhavan, Dalit voters have the power to spoil anyone’s game.
Courtesy : News Track
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