The newfound bonhomie is expected to force AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi to significantly alter his Mission 2012 for UP for the next few months.
leaders with Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati are expected to cease for the coming months as the two blocs enter a tacit symbiotic pact.
Aware of the threat of a close number game during Tuesday’s cut motions, the Congress-led UPA government made the right moves to appease Uttar Pradesh chief minister last week.
And Mayawati didn’t disappoint her appeasers when the D-day arrived. She instructed 21 BSP MPs to back the government to the hilt when it faces division of votes on the motions in parliament.
The newfound bonhomie is expected to force AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi to significantly alter his Mission 2012 for UP for the next few months.
A crucial aspect of the quid pro quo agreement with Mayawati, according to sources in both Congress and BSP camps, is that Gandhi or any other Congress leader wouldn’t indulge into making scathing attacks on the Mayawati regime.
This means the Congress’s much-hyped rath yatra flagged off by the Amethi MP on April 14 will have to change its tenor, as it was touted as a campaign to “expose the misrule of the BSP”. Chariots rolled out from 10 different places across UP as part of the rath yatra. Rahul was to join the yatra in Bundelkhand early next month.
Though Congress sources claim that the AICC general secretary won’t alter his plans to participate in the yatra, Rahul will have to “hold his punches against the UP government, for now”.
The virtual ceasefire between the two blocs may end by September, when Rahul’s campaign is supposed to enter its second phase. Till then, the Amethi MP is expected to concentrate on Bihar, which goes to polls later this year.
The Congress in Bihar is a divided house and all attempts to resolve disputes between its warring factions have so far failed to yield favorable results.
“Rahulji has been worried about the party’s condition in Bihar and with polls due later this year, this is the time for him to intervene,” a Congress leader said.
But the government is expected to continue showering its generosity on Mayawati as the other part of the bargain struck with her is that the CBI maintains a status quo on its stand of considering closure of the disproportionate assets (DA) case filed against the Dalit leader.
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