Assembly Elections 2017: How Narendra Modi won Uttar Pradesh

Make no mistake. The BJP win in Uttar Pradesh is a defining moment in Indian democracy.

In the past 25 years, never has a party so decisively controlled the levers of power in both Delhi and UP, home to 200 million and the heart of Indian politics. Rarely has a party been able to expand its social base, in such quick time, in such an unprecedented manner, across Hindu castes.

And not since the 1960s has a party exercised such dominance in national politics. The BJP was strong in the west, it was expanding in the east, but it did not have a state in the core heartland, from Delhi all the way to West Bengal, even though it was seen as a cow-belt party. That has now been addressed — and how.

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Travelling on the ground, it is astonishing to see the admiration Narendra Modi evokes. We travelled in the aftermath of the decision on demonetisation, expecting to find anger, but saw people — in some of the poorest districts of UP — hailing him. Voters said he had delivered on what he promised, that he had taken on the rich and corrupt, that the gains accrued from the exercise would be eventually transferred to the poor.View more:-Bulk Sms Service provider

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Asaduddin Owaisi says Muslim vote-bank is a myth

HYDERABAD: Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) drew a blank in all 35 seats it contested in Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, despite Asaduddin Owaisi drawing massive crowds in his election trail.

Talking to reporters at party headquarters in Darussalam on Saturday, the MIM president said poll results proved the Muslim vote-bank is a myth and the community is no torch-bearer of halting the saffron juggernaut. He also compared the BJP to a computer, with 'development' as its user name and 'Hindutva' as password.

"I have always been stating there was never and will never be a Muslim vote-bank. It has always been the opposite," said Owaisi, who represents Hyderabad in the Lok Sabha.

While constituencies with a substantial Muslim population such as Deoband too went to BJP, Owaisi claimed he is certain most Muslims did not vote for the saffron party. "At least 80-90 per cent Muslims did not vote for them," he said, while wondering which party was communal and which was secular. BJP's 'programme' and rhetoric in Uttar Pradesh was not inclusive, he said.

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SP, BSP could not ‘utter a single word’ against PM Modi: Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said both SP and BSP could not “utter a single word” against Narendra Modi as the Prime Minister and CBI have their “remote control”. “Mulayam Singh Yadav and Mayawati cannot utter a word against Modiji as he and CBI have their remote control,” he said while addressing a meeting in Jalaun in Uttar Pradesh.

Alleging that BJP and RSS are engaged in ‘touting of religion’, Rahul said they only love to be in power.

“BJP and RSS people do dalali (touting) of dharma (religion). They have no love for cow or religion. They only love to be in power,” the Congress vice president said.

Alleging that Modi is a “selfie and promise-making machine”, he said his promise of ‘achchhe din’ is only meant for his industrialist friends.


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Rajya Sabha: Mayawati corners govt over atrocities on Dalits, Muslims

After going hammer and tongs at the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Central Government in the Rajya Sabha over atrocities on Dalits and religious minorities, especially Muslims, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) national president Mayawati on Wednesday said so far, they were torturing men, but now they have started torturing women as well — nothing could be more shameful than that.
Continuing his tirade even outside Parliament, the BSP chief said, “Since the BJP-led government was formed at the Centre, all across the country, especially in the BJP-ruled states, people of weaker sections and religious minorities, particularly Muslims, are being tortured at every level.”
“Gujarat is a BJP-ruled state, where Dalit youth were tortured in the name of cow protection. Even as the matter was yet to be settled down, two women of the Muslim community were tortured and thrashed badly in front of police and people, which is not good. So far, they were torturing men, but they have now started torturing women also. Nothing could be more shameful than that,” Mayawati told reporters.
Earlier, the Rajya Sabha witnessed a stormy protest over reports of a cow vigilante group allegedly thrashing two women in Madhya Pradesh, with Mayawati taking on the ruling BJP.
She was soon joined by opposition parties, who protested against the incident.
The BSP chief further cornered the government on Gujarat’s Una issue, where four Dalit men were allegedly tortured by a cow vigilante group, which led a massive protest by the Dalit community.
Soon the protesting members took to the Well of the House, raising slogans against the government.
Seeking the government’s response over the issue, Deputy Chairperson P.J. Kurien urged the protesting members to return to their seats.
To which, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi asked the opposition members to serve a notice to have a full-fledged discussion on the issue.
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Why BJP was quick to show the door to Dayashankar Singh

The BJP swiftly expelled its Uttar Pradesh unit vice-president for his abusive remark about BSP chief Mayawati, underscoring the party’s zero tolerance towards anything that can scuttle its pro-Dalit plan ahead of the 2017 state polls.

The 44-year-old Dayashankar Singh, a former Lucknow University Students Union (LUSU) president, is an old BJP hand, and has risen through the ranks. He was promoted from a secretary to vice-president in the party unit.

But he probably failed to read the lines, and shot off his mouth, comparing Dalit leader and four-time chief minister Mayawati to a prostitute. The outrage he caused threatened to upset the BJP’s efforts to project a pro-Dalit image, especially in UP where scheduled caste and scheduled tribe people account for 23% of the state’s population.

The party’s ideological fountainhead, the RSS, and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad too have launched Dalit-outreach initiatives in the poll-bound state.

“He was close to the BJP leadership as was apparent by his promotion in the latest BJP unit in UP. But as the BSP used his remarks to accuse the party of anti-Dalit bias, the leadership acted,” a party source said.

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Singh, an upper case Thakur, played a key role in organising Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s May 1 function in Ballia, his native place. Modi launched the scheme to provide free cooking gas to the poor from there.

But his tongue did him in, and he failed to learn any lesson from another expulsion that preceded his. In April, the BJP had quickly expelled Madhu Mishra, a Brahmin leader, after she was accused of making anti-Dalit remarks.

BSP chief Mayawati had reacted strongly to both leaders’ comments, accusing the BJP of possessing an anti-Dalit mindset, a line the saffron brigade feared ahead of the UP polls.

In the 2012 UP polls, the Samajwadi Party made inroads into the BSP’s Dalit vote bank by winning 58 of the state’s 85 reserved assembly constituencies. But, in 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP won all the 17 reserved seats.

The party’s decision to distance itself from Singh wasn’t apparently an easy one. But he gave his party little option because the BSP, itching to get back at the BJP whom it has accused of poaching its leaders, was adamant on his expulsion and arrest.

The eastern UP leader, who had apologised for his remark, was taken by surprise at the speed with which his party acted against him. “I have no clue. I am hearing of my expulsion through you,” he said over the phone on Wednesday night.

Some of Singh’s supporters protested the expulsion. But he may be gone for good, at least for now.

“By sacking him, the BJP denied BSP the advantage it was aiming for,” said Athar Siddiqui of the Centre for Objective Research and Development.
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