Congress eyes revival in Uttar Pradesh through BSP votebank

New Delhi: The Congress party is eyeing the vote bank of the Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh. In fact, it is traditionally the vote of the Congress, which has gone to the BSP and is now splitting away from the BSP because BSP chief Mayawati is not very active in politics and is working as a reluctant politician. In the last assembly elections, there was no feeling that the party was contesting. As a result, a big party like BSP could win one seat out of 403 assembly seats. Just think, a party which has 10 MPs in the LS won one assembly seat. However, the vote that brought power to the BSP was the vote of Dalits, Brahmins and Muslims which has traditionally been a Congress vote. But due to the weakening of the BSP, some part of the Dalit vote has gone to the BJP, the Muslims are now almost completely with the Samajwadi Party and the Brahmins completely with the BJP. Congress has to get these three ‘votes’ back. The party has created such an equation through the new state president and six provincial presidents, which will help in getting this vote. The Cong has made an aggressive Dalit leader Brijlal Khabri, who was in the BSP, the state president of the party. Along with him, Muslim leader Nasimuddin Siddiqui, who was in the BSP, has been made the provincial president of the Western Zone. Former minister Nakul Dubey, who was one of the Brahmin faces of BSP, has been made the president of Awadh zone.