Maya prepares for Delhi civic polls
After shocking rivals with good results in the last MCD polls, BSP supremo Mayawati is all set to blow the election bugle on June 16 for the next year’s municipal polls in Delhi. She is expected to gear up the party machinery in Delhi during her day long meetings with the BSP functionaries. Though the MCD election is still a year away, Ms Mayawati is likely to ask the party machinery to go into the poll mode.
The BSP had shocked the political rivals by bagging 17 seats in the 2007 MCD elections and had also made deep inroads in many other municipal wards.
“Ms Mayawati will hold consultations with the BSP office bearers in Delhi apart from addressing a karyakarta sammelan (workers’ meet) on June 16. She will guide us to substantially improve party performance in the next year’s municipal polls,” said a senior BSP functionary. After the three way division of the MCD as approved by the Delhi government, the BSP is eyeing to emerge as an influential force after the next year’s municipal election.
Though in the 2007 MCD election the good performance of the BSP had helped the BJP to bag more seats, the BSP is now eyeing to bag a large number of wards next year. Ms Mayawati would be coming to Delhi after having done similar exercise in Chandigarh and Bengaluru. “The BSP is initiating the election campaign in all states which would go to the polls next year. Punjab, Uttarakhand and Delhi have elections next year and they are getting the same level of attention from Ms Maya-wati as she is giving to UP,” added the BSP functionary. The BSP poll managers are of the view that the smaller municipal wards in Delhi give the party realistic chances to win a large number of seats by consolidating dalit and most backward caste votes in its favour. The BSP had even made its presence felt in the last Delhi Assembly elections after two of its nominees won from their constituencies apart from coming second in few other seats.
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