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UP BJP mulls 'constituency-wise' strategy for the 27 seats with sizeable Muslim population

19 Oct , 2021   By : monika singh


UP BJP mulls 'constituency-wise' strategy for the 27 seats with sizeable Muslim population

In its first micro-strategy meeting held over the weekend, the Uttar Pradesh BJP looked into ways of formulating a unique strategy for each of the 27 seats in the Moradabad Mandal which includes places such as Bijnor, Rampur, Sambhal and Amroha that have a sizeable Muslim population. While the BJP had won more than half the seats in this region in 2017, it faced a setback in 2019 by losing Lok Sabha seats here.

Union minister and the BJP’s election in-charge for UP, Dharmendra Pradhan, held a special meeting in Moradabad on Saturday. The meeting was attended by party functionaries and public representatives from Moradabad as well as Karnal MP and UP BJP co-election in-charge, Sanjay Bhatia, and senior leaders of the state party units such as JPS Rathore and Captain Abhimanyu were called.
The dominant Jat community in the region has an alternative in the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), but BJP leaders said the party is mulling a fool-proof strategy for every constituency and will start by reaching out to the other prominent communities here such as Sainis, Tyagis and Gurjars, apart from Thakurs and Brahmins, and non-Jatavs among Dalits.

A senior BJP leader said the party had managed to wrest 15 of the 27 seats in 2017 while 12 went to the Samajwadi Party (SP) in the region considered to be a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) stronghold. “It is a challenging zone for us but we are approaching it strategically. In 2019, we lost six seats here because of some miscalculations which we are trying to rectify now. Our feedback is showing that our voter base is strongly with us. The OBCs (other backward classes) in particular are not going anywhere deserting us,” he said on condition of anonymity.

He said that according to the party’s internal assessment, it is the SP which is in a direct fight with the BJP, while the impact of the Congress and BSP is not significant except among Jatav voters. “But AIMIM rallies taking place in Ghaziabad, Meerut and Saharanpur are bound to have an impact,” he said.

The development outreach of the government will also help, he said

In September, chief minister Yogi Adityanath had inaugurated 30 projects worth Rs 69 crore in Thakurdwara constituency in Moradabad, which has an SP MLA, and had remarked that much more development would have taken place in the constituency had there been a BJP MLA in the constituency. The CM also laid the foundation of a medical college in Bijnor district.
Political analyst Atul Srivastava said in 2017 the BJP managed to snatch several seats in districts with sizeable Muslim population because there was a division of votes between the Muslims and Dalits, with the former voting for the SP-Congress alliance and the Dalits divided between the BSP and BJP. “Apart from two seats in Rampur, where the SP had a native Muslim face in Azam Khan, the BJP won in neighbouring Moradabad and Amroha, and also in Meerut, Saharanpur and Aligarh. A lot was also because the SP and BSP fielded Muslim candidates in these districts,” he said.

The SP’s MP ST Hasan, however, told ET that a large section of lower middle class and poor voters in the state, regardless of caste, were disappointed with the BJP. “The same OBCs and many Dalits voted for us in the past, and will do so this time, while the Muslims are strongly with us. The state government’s thakurwaad (policy of favouring Thakurs) has particularly upset many Dalits,” he said.


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