With just a year left to assembly polls scheduled early next year, Yogi Adityanath led BJP government in Uttar Pradesh is hopeful of doing what no other political party had been successful with over the last three decades. It hopes to break the jinx that the party in power has never been repeated for the second consecutive term. Behind this aspiration are the party’s perceived strong dominance and the fact that the opposition politics has not been able to catch the wider imagination so far.
The opposition parties have also sprung to action with the approaching polls. Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has gone into action mode and Priyanka Gandhi, the Congress General Secretary in charge for UP, is all set to launch a mega offensive in the state. But the question that emerges is whether the opposition can turn the tide in its favour or else is it too late to counter the saffron dominance in the politically significant state.