Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ20357

Dalit- Bahujan Politics in Uttar Pradesh : The Road Ahead

Authors(1) :-Rupesh Ranjan

Determined to achieve political power on its own BSP decided to widen its social base by opening its gate for the upper caste and formed a rainbow alliance with the Brahmins in particular for the 2007 assembly election. Though it was a successful attempt and party got emphatic victory with 206 seats on its own but this tenure of Mayawati marred her image of a strict administrator which she had earlier carved out for herself in her earlier tenure as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. As I have already mentioned, in her last tenure as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh where she had to share power with many upper castes cabinet ministers state witnessed major cases of corruption with active involvement of ministers and bureaucrats. Controversy erupted over her decision to build statues of herself and the party symbol ‘Elephant’. It was widely seen as a waste of public money. Public interest litigations (PIL) were filed in the Supreme Court accusing Mayawati of wasting public money to propagate her political agenda and recently Supreme Court has tentatively asked Mayawati to return the money spent on these statues. According to me Dalit- Bahujan politics today has reached a point of stagnation in states like Uttar Pradesh. At a time when most of the other political leaders are using the strategy of interacting with the masses Mayawati, still comes and read out her statement hence failing to connect with the voters.

Authors and Affiliations

Rupesh Ranjan
Phd Scholar, Department of Political Science, Jamia Millia islamia, New Delhi, India

Dalit, Bahujan, Politics, Uttar Pradesh, Road AheadA, Public interest litigations

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 2 | Issue 4 | July-August 2019
Date of Publication : 2020-09-30
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 36-44
Manuscript Number : SHISRRJ20357
Publisher : Shauryam Research Institute

ISSN : 2581-6306

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Rupesh Ranjan, "Dalit- Bahujan Politics in Uttar Pradesh : The Road Ahead", Shodhshauryam, International Scientific Refereed Research Journal (SHISRRJ), ISSN : 2581-6306, Volume 2, Issue 4, pp.36-44, July-August.2019
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