Madhya Pradesh Election: Dalit politics is on the rise in Madhya Pradesh. In order to help Dalit voters, BJP has decided to build Sant Ravidas temple and take out Samrasta Yatras, while Congress claims that it understands the hypocrisy of BJP regarding Dalit voters. Even after making three announcements, the temple of Saint Ravidas was not built and now Dalits are missing before the elections.
All the newspapers of Madhya Pradesh are littered with photos of Sant Ravidas and Samarasta Yatras to be taken out in his memory on Tuesday i.e. (July 25). The BJP is taking out harmony yatras from four Dalit-dominated districts of the state. PM at Sagar at the end of these visits Narendra Modi Will come and address a huge gathering of Dalits.
BJP had won 17 seats in the last election
Elections in Madhya Pradesh are after four months and after the tribal voters, the BJP has now set out to woo the Dalit voters. The population of Dalits in the state is seventeen to eighteen percent of the total population of the state. That is, there are about 64 lakh Dalit voters, for whom 35 out of 230 assembly seats are reserved seats. Out of these, Congress won 18 seats while BJP won 17 seats in the last election.
When Kamal Nath’s government fell, four SC MLAs also left Congress and joined BJP. That is, now 21 Dalit MLAs are in BJP’s court. Dalit voters are generally considered to belong to BSP, but in the last election two BSP MLAs won on general seats. BJP’s votes are divided in favor of Congress, BJP knows this.
Prime Minister’s visit to Sagar on August 12
Dalit population is in good numbers in 10 to 15 districts of Madhya Pradesh and has a direct impact on the election results, so this time BJP wants to win more and more Dalit seats by spreading the propaganda of its organization and work.
In Madhya Pradesh, the vote percentage between BJP and Congress remains almost equal. The government is made or broken only by the manipulation of a few seats. For this reason, BJP wants to become Dalit-friendly by building a big temple of Saint Ravidas in Sagar district to help Dalits. On the other hand, the Congress also wanted its Dalit face, party president Mallikarjun Kharge, to visit Sagar and Bundelkhand. His arrival was fixed on the 13th, but after the Prime Minister’s visit to Sagar was fixed on the 12th, Kharge’s visit has been postponed, due to which the Congress people are enraged.
What is BJP’s hope?
With Prime Minister Modi coming to Sagar, BJP hopes that it will be able to convince Dalit voters that the party has learned a lesson from the anti-Dalit violence during the last assembly elections and will leave no stone unturned for the upliftment of Dalits.
The concern of the BJP is that due to the weakening of the BSP, the Dalit voters directly benefit the Congress. For this reason, till the elections, the BJP is continuously organizing events among the Dalits and making efforts to win them over. On the contrary, the Congress is assuming that Dalits are and will remain the traditional voters of the Congress party.
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