The restless Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leadership due to its frequent falling support base has started work on a plan to repeat its successful ‘brotherhood’ experiment to join the Other Backward Classes (OBC) before the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh in 2027.
‘Bhaikhara’ was an experiment that was done before the 2007 elections. Under this experiment, brotherhood committees will be formed in 403 assemblies of the state and 100 people of OBC will be contacted. These 100 people will work as party messengers at the booth level.
Through these OBC brotherhood committees, the party wants to add its scattered rural vote bank and also seek the reply to the stakes of the PDA (Backward Dalit minority) of the Samajwadi Party.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) state president Vishwanath Pal said in a conversation with ‘PTI-Bhasha’, “The BSP has constituted OBC brotherhood committees in all the districts of the state. Two organizational convenors have been appointed in each district. District president and in-charge have been appointed.”
He says that one of these district presidents and in -charge is from the Dalit community and the other from the OBC. These officials are now making OBC brotherhood committees in all 403 assembly constituencies of the state.
He said, “These officials are going from village to village and have started the work of spreading the policies of BSP in rural areas. So that people of OBC society and other poor and minority society can also join these brotherhood committee and in the upcoming 2027 UP Assembly elections, BSP can regain power like 2007.
He said that the assembly in -charge will form a group of 100 people of OBC class in every village and will make them trained workers by giving them information about party programs and policies.
Trained workers will also be made an active member of the party. The BSP state president said that during the party’s campaign, people in every village are being made aware of the anti-Dalit policies of Congress, BJP and SP as well as the trick being done by them.
Asked if it is inspired by the PDA formula of the Samajwadi Party, Pal said, “SP is fooling the OBC community in the name of PDA. SP’s PDA means ‘Family Development Authority’
PDA is a brief name given by SP for backward, Dalits and minorities.
He alleged, “The Yadav community has the biggest stake in the OBC, but the SP did not give a party ticket to any person in the Yadav community, leaving family members in the Lok Sabha elections. The Yadav community votes for the Samajwadi Party in large numbers, but when it comes to the ticket, the SP chief sees only wife, brother and nephew. ”
Pal hoped that the OBC brotherhood committees would once again work hard and succeed in bringing the BSP back to power in Uttar Pradesh. He said that in 2007, Mayawati formed the brotherhood committee of all classes, after which the BSP formed the government in 2007 with an overwhelming majority. The party succeeded in winning 206 seats out of 403 assembly seats.
The president of the state unit of the BSP said that after the instructions given by party chief Mayawati last month, the workers are going to each assembly constituency of the state and giving detailed information to other backward classes and minorities about the works done during the BSP rule.
He said, “History will be repeated once again and in 2027, Mayawati will again become the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. From 2007 to 2012, the people of the state saw the BSP government doing justice to everyone. Then from 2012 to 2017, we saw the hooliganism of Samajwadi Party and now since 2017, the public is watching the communal government in the state.
At present, the party has only one member in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly, while in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, not a single candidate of the party could reach Parliament.
Perhaps that is why political experts believe that the BSP, which has been going through the worst phase since its inception, is very cautious for the 2027 elections and is re -implemented by the successful ‘brotherhood’.
Ravikant, a Dalit thinker and professor of the Hindi Department of Lucknow University, says, “If the BSP chief confines these OBC brotherhood committees to other backward classes and Dalits, then they will definitely get success.”
He said that however, if the upper class Brahmins and Thakurs were also included in these committees, the BSP may have to stay away from power once again because this class takes advantage of the BSP but gives its vote to the BJP.
Political experts also believe that this will be possible only when the BSP will emerge as a strong option in the 2027 election.
BSP chief Mayawati had said in the state level special meeting of the BSP’s other backward class last month that the people of Bahujan society are deprived of the constitutional benefits of reservation in the same way as reservation for Dalits has been made almost ineffective by tying them into various new rules and laws.
He had instructed the party workers that a new vigorous campaign should be launched to further strengthen all the organs of Bahujan society by organizing the key to gaining power by organizing on the basis of mutual brotherhood and creating political power.
