Yogi govt. working for only one caste, neglecting Brahmins, Dalits: BSP leader

BSP leader defends party’s do-it-alone strategy for U.P. polls

The Yogi Adityanath-led Uttar Pradesh government has neglected and Dalits and focused on only promoting Thakurs, the community to which the Chief Minister himself hails from, says senior Bahujan Samaj Party leader Satish Chandra Misra.

In an interview to The Hindu, he also justified the this time in U.P. Assembly election, saying that only the “weak need alliances.”

While BSP chief Mayawati is herself yet to step out to campaign for the 2022 Assembly election, Mr. Misra, her trusted lieutenant and national general secretary, has toured the State and addressed several rallies and public meetings, many of them targeted to woo the influential Brahmin caste, to which he himself belongs. In his speeches, Mr. Misra has tried to evoke Brahmin victimhood and referred to instances where members of the caste have been killed by the police in alleged “encounters,” murdered in criminal acts or neglected in politics by the BJP.