Former BJP ally Rajbhar ready to ally with SP
As per orders of the Chief Minister, the transfers were to be completed by July 15 this year and only necessary ones were to be made
Lucknow: Less than a day after Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav said that he was open to alliances with small parties for the upcoming UP assembly elections, former BJP ally, Om Prakash Rajbhar, said that he was also ready to ally with the SP.
Rajbhar told reporters that his coalition of smaller parties â Bhagidaari Sankalp Morcha (BSM) â was open to a tie-up with any opposition party, including the SP if it agrees to fulfil its demands, including a quota for various sub-castes within the OBC community.
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Radhika Ramaseshan
Senior journalist
Uttar Pradesh is in a political churn a little over a year before it votes. The social hierarchy that evolved in the post-Mandal, post-Ayodhya phases has become shaky. While the order that was built and re-built since the ’90s by the principal political players the BJP, the SP and the BSP is still not seriously challenged, the early tremors leading to a long-term transmutation are palpable. The BJP, SP and BSP, that took caste allegiances for granted and crafted their strategies to get the electoral math correct, may have to revisit their algorithms before 2022. For long, it was a given that the Yadavs, the biggest beneficiary of the empowerment agendas set out for the OBCS, went to the SP as their natural habitat; the Dalits and especially the better off Jatavs, rooted for the BSP. The BJP’s social engineering tactics, honed to near-perfection by KN Govindacharya, a former general secretary, eventually led to the regrouping of th