20.10.15

Mayawati, the unlikely ally of Grand Alliance

Archis Mohan / BS
Largely unnoticed by the media, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati is utilising the ongoing Bihar Assembly polls to prepare for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections due in early 2017.

Mayawati is ostensibly campaigning for her party’s 243 candidates. But there is a method to her political attacks. In her election rallies in Bihar, Mayawati has largely spared the ‘Grand Alliance’ parties – the Rashtriya Janata Dal, Janata Dal (United) and Congress. None of these three parties are a challenger to the BSP in UP.

Mayawati has singled out for her staccato but effective onslaught on – she calls it a quasi-alliance – the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP). At times she has even batted for the ‘Grand Alliance’. more

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