Congress is ready to ally with BSP in Madhya Pradesh, reports many newspapers but the question that needs to be asked is whether BSP should or shouldn’t? Not only in Madhya Pradesh but in Rajasthan and Chattisgarh also Congress seems desperate for the alliance with BSP.

In Karnataka, JD (S) allied with the BSP and coalition of the JD(S)-BSP-Congress came to power. Though the BSP won only one seat and its share in the votes remained at 0.4 percent, it had played a decisive role in the electoral process. The combined votes of the opposition are far larger than the BJP votes. If the BSP bargains harder with the regional parties and the Congress, it can decisively win many seats. As a matter of fact, if the BSP really puts in place the party structure and party organization to gain electorally, it can win seats on its own strength of its vote bank.

In last assembly elections which took place in 2013, the Congress and the BSP polled 36.38 percent and 6.29 percent respectively, of the total votes, whereas the BJP secured 44.88 percent votes. BJP won 165 seats, the Congress 58, the BSP 4 while independents won 3 seats in the 230-member assembly. If BSP and Congress come together defeat for BJP is sure but one of the factors which keeps BSP away from such alliances is the reason that BSP has always been able to transfer its votes to other parties in the alliance but other parties have failed to do so.

All over India, the Dalits forms a strong bloc of a political class that can sway elections in every single constituency in India. Therefore, it can decide who rules the states and the country. This is the reason why the BSP is an important player in the Indian politics,

The Congress is at the declining stage throughout India. It is due to two important reasons: the rise of regional parties, but the most important is the rise of the BSP in Northern India. The BSP effectively destroyed the Congress party in North India. South India is a different case. The Congress lost the support of the SCs in far bigger a number and in UP it was decimated.

in the new coalition that the Congress is seeking, it can not do that as the dominant partner, but it has to align ideologically to the anti-caste agenda. Its president, Rahul Gandhi, is attacking the RSS, but this attack on RSS is not enough. he must attack the ideology of the Brahmin-Bania. Can he do that is a mute question?

For the survival of the democracy, the social movement for the annihilation of the caste is a must. Can the Congress party launch a movement to annihilate the caste? The answer at this stage is no as we saw Rahul Gandhi and Congress started playing the soft Hindutva card. It did not help it in electoral politics.

Author – Mangesh Dahiwale, edited by Velivada team

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