The main aim of the party leaders is to consolidate its Dalit vote-bank by projecting Mayawati as the next PM.
In 1995, former Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao dubbed BSP Supremo Mayawati as the ‘miracle of Indian democracy’ when she became the first woman Dalit Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. Now, 23 years later, the her party – BSP -- has decided to portray her as the first Dalit Prime Minister of the country in its campaign to the run for 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
It is, however, a different matter that the BSP could not even get a single seat in 2014 Lok Sabha polls. But after the famous Bengalru photo-op with Sonia Gandhi and others and recent successes in Uttar Pradesh by-polls and Karnataka Assembly polls with Samajwadi Party and Congress alliance, the BSP camp is upbeat.
In an important meeting of party National coordinators in Lucknow on Monday, it was decided to project ‘behenji’, as she is popularly known, as the first Dalit Prime Minister of the country. Mayawati, however, deliberately stayed away from the crucial meet to avoid any controversy on coordinators’ decision.
The main aim of the party leaders is to consolidate its Dalit vote-bank by projecting Mayawati as the next PM. But the party coordinators also believe that the political situation may emerge in favour of behenji in post-poll scenario to check Narendra Modi returning to power, in case the NDA falls short of majority.
“Her Dalit credential would be more acceptable among non-NDA partners in comparison to other aspirants,” pointed a senior party leader, without taking name of the AICC President Rahul Gandhi, who had already announced his name to be in race for the coveted PM post.
The party National Vice-President Jay Prakash Singh pointed that Dalits across country want Mayawati to replace Narendra Modi and be the next Prime Minister of the country. “She has the capability to unite non-NDA parties on one platform and make any political party bite the dust and alliance to win with the support of dalits. We have seen recent poll results in Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka,” he pointed.
While Mayawati is busy secretly holding talks with non-NDA partners to bring them at one platform on her terms and conditions, her party is busy in chalking out strategy to portray her as the first Dalit Prime Minister at the grassroot-level.
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