[1]In bad news to the ruling BSP in Uttar Pradesh, state Intelligence told chief minister Mayawati that her party would at best get 160 seats, well short of the magic figure of 203 seats in the 403-strong state Assembly.
State Intelligence also sounded the ruling dispensation that the successful social engineering of 2007 is no more intact in the state.
Sources said state Intelligence, on the basis of inputs from all parts of the state, cautioned BSP, that they should win back the upper caste for any chance to come back in power. However, if the feedback was to be believed, UP is headed for a hung Assembly, with no party forming a government in the state on its own.
It was also stated, sources said, that BSP should not count on Muslim support, as the community vote would most likely split, with other contenders being Samajwadi Party, which is wooing minority support with promise of 18 per cent reservation in government jobs in the state, and Congress.
BSP appears to be losing in western UP where they had emerged as the leading political party in 2007, as SP is said to be vying for the minority vote base along with Congress-RLD alliance.
State Intelligence sounded the BSP supremo, that she would have to launch an aggressive poll campaign to highlight achievements of her government and go to the poll with development plank.
However, BSP needs to fight their negative perception following sacking of a number of state ministers, after indicted by the Lokayukta, intelligence suggested.
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