The Bahujan Samaj party (BSP) leadership, worried by its continuously falling support base, has started working on a plan to repeat its successful 'bhaichara' experiment to connect with the Other backward classes (OBCs) before the assembly elections to be held in Uttar Pradesh in 2027. 'Bhaichara' was an experiment that was done before the 2007 elections. Under this experiment, brotherhood committees will be formed in 403 assembly constituencies of the state and 100 people from OBC will be contacted. These 100 people will work as the party's ambassadors at the booth level.
Answer to SP's bet?
Through these OBC brotherhood committees, the party wants to connect its scattered rural vote bank and also wants to find an answer to the Samajwadi Party's PDA (Backward Dalit Minority) bet. Bahujan Samaj party (BSP) state president Vishwanath Pal said, 'BSP has formed OBC brotherhood committees in all the districts of the state. Two organizational coordinators have been appointed in each district. district presidents and in-charges have been appointed.' He says that among these district presidents and in-charges, one is from the Dalit community and the other is from OBC. These officials are now forming OBC brotherhood committees in all 403 assembly constituencies of the state. He said, 'These officials are going from village to village among the people 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 communities can also join these brotherhood committees and in the upcoming 2027 UP assembly elections, BSP can regain power like in 2007.'
BSP on the path of SP?
He said that the assembly in-charge will form a group of 100 people of OBC category in every village and will make them trained workers by giving them information about the programs and policies of the party. The trained workers will also be made active members of the party. The BSP state president said that during the party's campaign, people are being made aware in every village about the anti-Dalit policies of Congress, bjp and SP as well as the deceit and fraud being continuously done by them.
When asked if this is inspired by the Samajwadi Party's PDA formula, Pal said, 'SP is fooling the OBC community in the name of PDA. SP's PDA means 'Parivar Vikas Pradhikaran' PDA is an acronym given by SP for backward, Dalit and minority. He alleged, 'Yadav community has the largest share in OBC, but SP did not give party ticket to anyone from Yadav community except family members in the lok sabha elections. Yadav community votes for Samajwadi party in large numbers, but when it comes to tickets, the SP chief sees only wife, brother and nephew.'
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