By elegantly registering its triumph over the Ghosi assembly seat, the Samajwadi Party looks confident and competent to re-iterate its control to manage a coalition of Mandal castes, particularly the minority and non-dominant OBCs. Could it be said now that OBCs tend to move toward the BJP or the other way around?
The Ghosi results have hinted that the political atmosphere is a tad bit shifting. The avid political gazers could assume that chances were opening up for the I.N.D.I.A coalition to ably analyse and examine new social combinations between backward, most backward, Muslims, and Dalits.
The victory of SP’s upper caste candidate, Sudhakar Singh, by a big margin of above 40 thousand votes has furthermore come as a booster for the nervous Opposition parties attempting to locate feet in UP that sends maximum MPs to the Lok Sabha.
While Yadavs and Muslims remain SP’s core support base in UP, the party needs another dominant caste to stitch a winning combination. That link was provided by backward leaders like Chauhan and Rajbhar in the year 2022. In the recently completed by-polls, nonetheless, the deficit has been replenished most probably by the BSP voters. Following its defeat the BJP has reportedly decided to change its political strategy for the next year’s elections.
The saffron party will no longer bring an MLA whose straight resignation would induce a situation for a by-poll. The other major outcome from the latest bye-election stands as the near-total and assertive consolidation of Muslim votes against the BJP in Ghosi. it is now evident that the voters fathom things a little more. The result remains attention-seeking, a little more vibration-raising than the ruling party’s flunked strategy that shatters otherwise on the active political ground. By the Ghosi win Shivpal Yadav is supposedly becoming more like a political superstar with his success.