Union Home Minister Amit Shah briefing and communicating with the Jat leaders in New Delhi was significant with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s faith hanging in the balance with Samajwadi Party (SP) and Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) alliance. The alliance electorally fairing better in a region where discontentment against the centre’s controversial farm laws ran contrary to the promise of doubling farm income by 2022. Many amongst the Jat peasantry expressing and articulating their grievances against BJPs high handedness- crushing and muzzling the protest by farmers with the Prime Minister sounding hardly apologetic. The Jats cannot let this off from their memory, let alone being mistaken by the false pretence of a party (BJP) known for its hypes and rhetorics and does hardly any good to any constituency.
Jats know this fact and are ready to give Yogi Adityanath a befitting response with Rashtriya Lok Dal, led by Jayanta Chaudhary, far ahead of its nearest rival BJP in this region. RLD’s entry has irked the central command of the Bhartiya Janta Party, which senses a loss in this sugar cane belt stretching from Meerut to Saharanpur, Kairana to Baghpat. The situation on the ground is shaky for the incumbent with Ram and Jinnah in the fray; getting Jayant by their side can mean a lot for Yogi Adityanath’s battling perceptions to become popular amongst all. But in politics, neither friends are permanent nor are enemies, a fact which Jayant has learnt and lived by following the footsteps of late Ajit Singh, who handled both roles and reactions to the best of his avails and capacities morally and ethically, preserving his principles and purchase as a people’s leader.