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Mayawati gets mandate from UP
Published on Sat, May 12, 2007 at 04:41, Updated on Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 14:48 in 
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MAYAWATI TAKES THRONE: The BSP wins power after seven rounds of polling spread over a month.
Why did the BJP get deserted by its karyakartas?
However, BJP General Secretary Arun Jaitley argued that the issue is not about the desertion by BJP’s karyakartas.
“Post-1991, the emergence of SP in UP is in itself a phenomena. The hardening of social and cast identity also to a great extent is a post-’91 phenomena. As a result the UP elections has become quadrangular with the Congress as a distant fourth,” Jaitley said.
He further argued that, “in the initial elections BJP did well and had a larger rainbow coalition. We have carried on that experiment but the one factor, which has taken place is that national parties like the Congress and the BJP normally do not have an identified caste base. So, anti-incumbency against a caste-base party also gives rise to certain reactions. We don’t seem to be benefiting from that phenomena.”
According to Jaitley, Mulayam Singh had a support base, which helped him to maintain a reasonable position. “The hostile position to him was substantially captured by BSP and a large part of our social base also moved on to the BSP,” he said.
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But where are the local leaders, Sardesai asked the two leaders. As these elections get more and more municipalised, people expect a local leadership to emerge. Now Rahul Gandhi and Rajnath Singh are all Delhi-based leaders, so isn’t that the problem?
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