Political Line | Why everyone wants the Brahmin vote in UP

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and Bahujan Samaj Party leader Mayawati, both former Chief Ministers of Uttar Pradesh, have been telling an untruth quiet since the 2019 Lok Sabha election. With the 2022 Assembly election throughout the corner, both of them are rising from their rest time. The priority of their initial actions turns up to be Brahmins. Ms. Mayawati has appointed Brahmin leader Satish Mishra to guide a unique campaign among the community.

Shortly the BSP announced its campaign, the Samajwadi Party attempted to lift back. Its Brahmin leader Abhishek Mishra said the community however thought back to the “oppression” faced within Ms. Mayawati’s rule through “false” prosecutions inhabited under the SC/ST Act.

During the 2017 Assembly election and the parliamentary elections of 2014 and 2019, Brahmins rallied behind the Bharatiya Janata Party. Why is the community so crucial in the politics of the enormous State of India? In an earlier portion, I had clarified this: “The unreasonable group of negative traits such as inefficiency, corruption, nepotism and policy paralysis with OBCs, Dalit and minority leaders in public debates is not spontaneous but frequentlya consequence of curated hegemonic discourses. The 2007 slogan that proclaimed the Jatav-Brahmin social coalition that shooted Ms. Mayawati to power in U.P. creatively correlated the emergence of any different political narrative to caste hierarchy — ‘Brahmin Shankh Bajayaenge Toh Haathi Badta Jaayega. The Brahmins, assessed to be above 10% of the U.P. voters, are extensively affecting swing voters whatever place in India at the moment. In 2007, their assistance given rise to Ms. Mayawati to power; in 2012, they changed positions en masse to Akhilesh Yadav who came to be the Chief Minister; and in 2017, they moved en masse to the BJP that won.”