U.P. Assembly polls | Maurya takes Adityanath head-on, says it’s 15% vs 80%
The Hindu
The former UP Minister was referring to CM Yogi Adityanath’s assertion on the State election battle between ‘the 20 and 80’, an indirect reference to the communal composition of Muslims and Hindus in the State.
The 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election will not be a contest between the 20% vs the 80% but between the 15% and the 85%, rebel OBC leader Swami Prasad Maurya said on Friday, January 14, 2022, pitting social justice bahujan politics head-on against the Hindutva mobilization of the BJP.
Days after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath stated that the election , an indirect reference to the communal composition of Muslims and Hindus in the State, Mr. Maurya resorted to the antidote of mobilization of the Dalits, tribals and backward castes against the ‘upper castes.’
Delivering an impassioned speech upon joining the BJP’s main rival, the Samajwadi Party, at its party headquarters here Mr. Maurya targeted the alleged appeasement of the ‘upper castes’ in particular the Thakur caste which Mr. Adityanath himself was born into under the BJP government.
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