In the politics of Uttar Pradesh, ethnic colors have become thick these days. In Dandarpur, Etawah, the Brahmins have been accused in the incident of beating, beating, shaving heads, cutting and spraying urine in Dandarpur, Etawah. After this incident, the Samajwadi Party (SP) openly came down in favor of the Yadavs.
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav even said that if the true Krishna devotees will be stopped from telling the story, then why would anyone bear this insult. He even challenged that dominant and domination people should declare that donations given by the PDA will never accept the offering.
Ahir Regiment and other Yadav organizations opened a front against the Brahmins after the SP’s opening of the SP’s open -afflicted crown Mani Yadav and Sant Yadav, after Akhilesh’s sarcasm. After the Etawah incident, the way the case has taken ethnic color, now it is also being started about that Akhilesh Yadav’s anti -Brahmin card should not be backfired for his SP SP?
10 percent Brahmin votes in UP
Brahmins have been dominated by Uttar Pradesh politics. According to estimates in the total voters of the state, the participation of Brahmins is about 10 percent. According to estimates, almost every assembly seat of UP has at least five thousand Brahmin voters. Brahmin voters play a decisive role in deciding the victory and defeat in about 100 assembly seats in about 30 districts of the state.
This figure of seats is about half of the magic figure of 202 required for absolute majority. Faizabad, Varanasi, Jaunpur, Gorakhpur, Ballia, Gonda, Basti, Maharajganj, Kanpur, Rae Bareli, Amethi, Sitapur, Hardoi, Prayagraj, Sultanpur, Pratapgarh, Jhansi, Hardoi are considered to be the stronghold of Brahmin voters.
With whom this vote went, its government formed
Brahmins in UP may not seem so effective in terms of voter number, but the past of power makes a different story. For a long time, the Brahmins stayed with the Congress and the Grand Old Party in UP run the government for a long time. After 1989, the BJP strengthened among the Brahmins in the era of politics of the Ram temple movement, Mandal-Center.
The coalition is right with the help of politics, BJP also tasted the power of the state. After 2002, Brahmins were angry with the BJP and since 2005, Mayawati -led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) started the exercise to help them through Brahmin conferences. Mayawati’s party gave tickets to 56 Brahmins in the 2007 assembly elections, out of which 41 won the assembly and reached the assembly.
The BSP for the first time formed the government with an absolute majority. In 2012, the SP came to power with a big victory, formed the government led by Akhilesh Yadav, and the Brahmin has also described the role of voters behind him as SP chief Akhilesh Yadav himself. Due to the 2017 elections, a large part of this class has been with the BJP and for twice in a row, there is a majority government of the lotus mark in the state.
According to a CSDS report, 83 percent of Brahmins voted in favor of BJP in the 2017 assembly elections. In contrast, SP got only seven percent Brahmin votes. This was a big reason that every party’s focus before the 2022 assembly elections was to tell Brahmin harassment, criminal incidents with Brahmins and data of the encounter of Brahmins in the government led by Yogi Adityanath. However, the opposition did not get the benefit of this and six percent more than the last election, ie 89 percent of the Brahmins voted in favor of BJP.
SP has also been getting Brahmin votes
SP’s political land has also been strong among Brahmin voters. The younger Lohia Janeshwar Mishra used to be number two in SP after Mulayam Singh Yadav. After the party was elected MP, the selection of Mata Prasad Pandey on the post of Leader of Opposition in the assembly vacated by Akhilesh Yadav’s resignation was also seen to be associated with the strategy of helping the Brahmins.
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In the UP Assembly Elections 2022, 52 Brahmins were elected members of the Assembly, in which the SP was second with the number of five after 46 BJP MLAs. In the Lok Sabha elections last year, the SP gave tickets to four Brahmins. One of these, Sanatan Pandey reached Parliament after winning the election from Ballia seat.
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Akhilesh, who was trying to create a new vote with the PDA, was also seen openly avoiding someone’s favor in the case of a Brahmin family after the murder of Prem Yadav in Akhilesh Deoria, who was trying to create a new vote. When Akhilesh met Prem Yadav’s family, he also went to meet the Brahmin family. Whether it was met or not, it is a different matter.
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This step of former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav was seen as a balance stand, keeping in mind that the other would not be angry with any one class standing with one class. But after the Etawah incident, Akhilesh called the Brahmins to the sovereignty and domination. Will the political profit to paint a criminal incident in the color of ethnicity? This will be a matter of view.