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Even before the first vote is cast on August 6, the winner of the Vice Presidential election is clear, if MPs vote as per their party affiliations – the Opposition candidate will not poll even half of what the ruling NDA’s nominee Jagdeep Dhankar will get.
The trajectories of parties’ vote share since 1993 indicate the magnitude of transformation of the state’s politics.
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has finalised at least 300 candidates, including 90 Dalits, for contesting the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, party general secretary SC Misra said on Thursday.
Mayawati has already announced that the BSP was seeking to go with its 2007 winning formula encompassing Dalits and Brahmins in the February-March polls. The party also commands a substantial vote share among the Muslim community.
The BJP’s social engineering formula, rooted in the vacuous “