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Role Of Dalits In Punjab Assembly Elections 2022: How BJP Can Benefit From SAD-BSP Alliance|Swarajya
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Politics in the Punjab has taken a sharp turn, with the Badal family’s Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) announcing a formal alliance, six months ahead of assembly elections in the state. The BSP will contest only 20 seats, out of 117, leaving the balance 97 to the SAD. This forecloses any chance of the SAD coming back together with their former ally, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), whom they left last year over the farm bills issue.
It is an interesting development, which makes the contest a genuine four-way split (between the SAD-BSP, the Congress, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), and the BJP). This is because Dalits form 32 per cent of the state’s population (the highest in the country), and, because Dalit voting patterns could have decisive, multiple ramifications on the fortunes of all parties in the fray, for pretty much the first time.
On the face of it, electoral arithmetic would have one say that the more splintered the Punjabi electorate, the easier the path for the Congress. But things are not so simple on the ground: a significant churning is underway in the state, with votes set to shift in bulk from one party to another, just as they did so dramatically in 2017, when the AAP made a magnificent entrance.
#PunjabElections #Congress #BJP #AAP
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It is an interesting development, which makes the contest a genuine four-way split (between the SAD-BSP, the Congress, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), and the BJP). This is because Dalits form 32 per cent of the state’s population (the highest in the country), and, because Dalit voting patterns could have decisive, multiple ramifications on the fortunes of all parties in the fray, for pretty much the first time.
On the face of it, electoral arithmetic would have one say that the more splintered the Punjabi electorate, the easier the path for the Congress. But things are not so simple on the ground: a significant churning is underway in the state, with votes set to shift in bulk from one party to another, just as they did so dramatically in 2017, when the AAP made a magnificent entrance.
#PunjabElections #Congress #BJP #AAP
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