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New Delhi: If Mayawati is marching ahead, Congress doesn't seem to be heading anywhere.

Former minister, Akhilesh Das — who quit the Congress on Tuesday alleging that Rahul Gandhi and his coterie were running the party — is likely to join the BSP on May 13.

More ministers may follow and it's Mayawati who is likely to usher them in. What the BSP supremo is banking upon is the growing disillusionment within the Congress.

UP Congress leader, Sushil Dubey says, "When the decision from the top leadership is wrong, then what are you expecting from the workers in lower ranks?"

Another UP Congress member, Dr Rehman Ahmad Khan, says of UP Congress head, Rita Bahuguna Joshi, "She lost elections but was still made party chief. The people who are truly dedicated to the party have been completely sidelined."

A section of the Congressmen in Uttar Pradesh now firmly believe that chances of the party's revival are very thin in the near future. The disgruntled Congress functionaries feel that the best option for them is to ride the BSP's elephant.

Rahul Gandhi's blueprint for Congress' success in Uttar Pradesh is greater involvement of party members and that everybody should contest polls and prove their electoral worth.

It is this which is putting many Congress leaders off. They argue that if they have to contest, then why not from the BSP. After all, BSP has had a clean sweep in all bypolls.

Both Rahul Gandhi and Mayawati are talking of social engineering. While Mayawati has been successful, Rahul has had to face some block. After all in Uttar Pradesh, Congress is a no show.