Why is the alliance of BSP with the regional parties important to stop the growing Hindutva politics in India?

In a welcome sign, the BSP extended its support to the SP candidate in the by-elections in Uttar Pradesh and helped SP won both the seats in Phulpur and Gorakhpur If the SP and BSP came up with a certain agreement over seats sharing in UP, then the RSS/BJP will have a difficult time and the only option they will have will be tweaking the EVMs. The BSP is the national party with a solid vote bank of the SCs backing it provided the BSP leadership does not let its core voters down. Mayawati has been very slow in alliance building with the regional parties and it should go for the politics of alliance wherever it can.

In Karnataka, the BSP ensured a defeat of the Congress party in the past and the BJP government came to power. The weakening BSP led to coming to power of the Congress and thus increased the bargaining power of the SCs within Congress in the last elections. The Congress party went on nominating Kharge as the leader of the opposition party. It would have been impossible without the BSP’s presence in the state of Karnataka. The BSP is now allying with the JD in Karnataka. It is a welcome sign.

The BSP can easily build up regional alliances as the votes of the SCs are easy to consolidate around the mission and philosophy of Babasaheb Ambedkar. In the given scene in Indian politics, it would be also strategic to ally with all the possible parties with a rational seat-sharing on the basis of population and patterns of votes cast by the people in the last elections.

Hindutva politics can only be ended with the Bahujan politics and there is no other way to counter it. That is the reason why the alliance of the SP-BSP in the past have stopped the BJP from gaining after its Kamandal politics around the Ayodhya. It is time the Bahujan parties to come together and give a final and lethal blow to the Brahminism. Kanshi Ram anticipated this moment in the history of Indian politics when the Bahujans and the Brahmins will lock their horns for claiming the power. Perhaps, this is the time.

Author – Mangesh Dahiwale

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