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## [OS] INDIA: [Analysis] Political Inclusiveness & Electoral Dividends in the State of Uttar Pradesh

Released on 2012-08-25 09:00 GMT

Email-ID | 336493
Date | 2007-06-16 00:28:16
From | os@stratfor.com
To | analysts@stratfor.com

Political Inclusiveness & Electoral Dividends in the State of Uttar
Pradesh
June Issue
www.asianfocus.com
The elections in the politically heavyweight state of Uttar Pradesh (UP)
are eye-catching for politicians and political commentators alike. The
electoral results are keenly awaited for as the outcomes can make or break
the power at the center. The party that unseats the incumbent in UP brings
political turmoil at the center since it has the largest representation of
seats in the Parliament. Recently concluded elections in UP will go down
in political history for more than one reason. Bhaujan Samaj Party (BSP),
a representative of Dalits (lower caste), led by Ms. Mayawati, winning 210
seats out of 402 has secured an absolute majority surpassing everybody's
expectations. Beginning with a modest representation of 11 seats in its
conception in 1984, slowly and steadily flourished under the auspices of
its founder Kanshi Ram, and finally fully blossomed under Mayawati. She is
the first democratically elected Dalit leader to get an absolute majority.
In the process two main national parties at the center, the Congress and
the BJP, decimated to a bizarre low level notwithstanding the play of
identity politics. The congress hurried-up in implementing the of 27 per
cent quota for other backward castes (OBCs) in all higher educational
institutes prior to the elections in spite of Supreme Court's discomfort
with the modus operandi of it. Whereas many believe that the BJP, in a
last-ditch effort, wanted to whip-up the religious passions with lower
rank political cadres at the state level indulging in the distribution of
religiously inflammatory video contents to play on Hindu sentiments.
Symbolism apart, BSP's thumping win has radical implications for the
future political discourse of India.
The election results, by and large, not only in UP but all over India,
seems to throw up surprises. Given that UP as a state is condemned as the
big bad-land riddled with politics-mafia nexus, leaden with mass
illiteracy, poverty, and social inequality as well. Erstwhile elections
are fought and won on the basis of ideological divides and political
fragmentation based on religion, caste and narrow local issues. This time,
the BSP strategically maneuvered pre-poll embracement of Brahmins (Upper
Caste) quite contrary to its earlier hatredness. It paid rich dividends
suggesting that broadening the scope of political 'inclusiveness' through
the 'bottom up' of political process - preserving Dalit identity without
losing the Brahmin and other Upper Caste. Therefore, BSP's win is much
more and far beyond 'sweeping wave', 'emotive appeals' and
anti-incumbency. If somebody finds reasons, not for winning but for
loosing elections, the message is very clear - political parties cannot
dilly-dally with electoral promises, rather must put the 'development'
agenda at the centre stage, as I have argued earlier (August 2006) in
these columns. That only can address their bread and butter. Specifically,
job creation, building rural roads and improving the quality of public
provisioning - power, water, health and education, will convince the
electoral mass. Though UP still exhibits a degree of caste-based loyalty,
political parties can not afford to milk purely on the basis of
traditional 'loyalty' vote basin. The voters are matured enough not to be
bullied any longer with mere 'promises' or emotive appeals. A simmering of
hope is beckoning!
Now that BSP has comeback with a thumping win, it has an uphill task ahead
of it. Immediately it has to restore law and order giving a sense of
safety and security to people. But what is more challenging in the days
ahead is to design and implement a comprehensive 'development' package
addressing agriculture and industrial sector for refurbishing the
economically ailing state with abysmal three per cent growth against more
than six per cent all-India growth. While, all along it is able to create
jobs and more number of jobs to address the fast rising rural unemployment
in its vast hinterland.
WATCHPOINT: The longevity of BSP government will willy-nilly depend on not
merely addressing the upliftment of larger Dalits to which it represents
but in satisfying the diverse interest groups under the umbrella of
comprehensive development agenda.