Mayawati woos Muslims by supporting Azam Khan

Lucknow: After BSP’s drubbing in UP assembly polls, Mayawati has been toiling to devise an effective strategy for the revival of her party. Along with the overhauling of the organization, the BSP chief is focusing exclusively on the Dalit-Muslim vote-base. Azam Khan's support on social media is considered as a part of Mayawati's well thought out strategy.

For the past decade, the graph of BSP's electoral performance has taken the shape of a downward trajectory. In the 2014 general elections, it could not win a single seat.

In the 2019 general elections, despite the alliance with the SP, the party's vote share did not increase but it got five seats. In the year 2017 assembly polls, Mayawati’s party got 19 seats with 22.24 percent vote share. In the recent elections, the performance of BSP has reached its worst level since 1993. With the victory in just one seat, its vote share came down to around thirteen percent.

After the results, Mayawati blamed shifting of Muslim voters to the SP for such dismal performance.

Now, from the Rajya Sabha to the Legislative Council of the state, there is a serious crisis of maintaining representation for the BSP.