Is Mayawati the greatest bottleneck in the formation of the anti BJP grand alliance ?

While the elections to the five states are due for next month and the general elections of 2019 are just 9 months ahead the non BJP oppositions’ Mahagathbandhan, the grand alliance seems to be in disarray, even before taking a final consolidated shape in order to challenge the mighty BJP led NDA at the national level as the only and a strong Dalit leader of the country and BSP’s supremo Bahan Mayawati has started showing her political colours to disintegrate the unity efforts which generated enough hopes and aspirations in the anti BJP opposition camp just few months ago.

After the incessant energetic moves of Congress president Rahul Gandhi trying to move his anti Rafale juggunaut with quite a strong force compelling to put the ruling saffron party in an offensive mode right from his effective posture inside parliament on the no confidence motion to his attacking mode of hectic campaigning in the states going to polls next month, it was felt that the non BJP opposition onslaught will give a new lease of life, energy and ammunition to the parties like SP, BSP, TMC, CPM, CPI, NCP and the like minded regional parties to come forward unitedly to back the Congress chief in his concerted anti government attempt and expedite the unity efforts of a grand alliance for the 2019 elections, cohesively.

But unfortunately the BSP chief Mayawati and to some extent TMC chief n the West Bengal chief minister Mamta Bannerjee who are themselves nurturing the ambition to be the prime ministerial candidates of the mahagathbandhan did not want it to fructify, earnestly as they think that it will be the Nehru Gandhi scion ultimately who will make the mark in the near future.

While Mamta Bannerjee has slowed down her unity efforts these days, the BSP supremo Mayawati has openly and unambiguously sidelined itself from the Congress party in Rajasthan, Chattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh openly announcing that while in Chattisgarh its fighting the election in league with the Janata Congress of Ajit Jogi, having declared him the prospective chief minister candidate and in Rajasthan n MP, would fight the elections on her own.

She especially held a press conference to not only badly insult n degrade the senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh accusing him as the BJP henchman but had also blamed him of being the greatest bottleneck in the way of the Congress BSP seat adjustment characterising him as a most selfish n self centred leader, which the Congress says is not true. Similarly in Maharashtra the BSP is likely to join hands with the Republican Party of India , ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Sources reveal that this move could be a huge blow to the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party’s plan of forming a grand alliance against the BJP for the forthcoming general election.

As per the latest reports the two parties met on Saturday and agreed to “explore possibilities for forging an alliance” obviously meaning minussing Congress and the NCP considered to be the largest and strongest partis in the state of Maharashtra.

It ma6 be recalled that just a feww weeks’ ago , BSP supremo Mayawati had launched a scathing attack on the Congress party declaring that she will not form any alliance with Rahul Gandhi under any circumstances given an unambiguos hint of threatening the Congress chief politically and thus helping the BJP and also giving indications of keeping the options open for alliance with the saffron party in the future as being a shrewd politician she very well knows that BJP and prime minister Modi still has better chances of winning in 2019 despite losing few states this time.

Sources reveal that Mayawati is presently keeping her options open on two fronts as her tactical move : one, she is trying hard to hobnob with regional and influential parties in various states to establish a tacit understanding keeping Congress at a distance and to bag maximum seats in 2019 to emerge as the strongest leader to claim the post of prime ministership and two, if the circumstances don’t allow her to prove successful on this count she may even think of going for an alliance with the saffron party at the pan India level accepting the post of the deputy prime minister and sufficient say in UP. The BJP which is also rapidly losing its grip over the SC, ST votes also desperately need pact with a powerful Dalit leader like Mayawati to ensure its sure sort one sided victory in 2019. One should also not forget that Mayavati has in the past too formed an alliance in UP n sought power and why can’t she endeavour to hobnob with BJP in 2019 when she finds better chances of reaching to the top at the centre under Modi’s influence which is still intact as far as his comparison with Rahul Gandhi is concerned.

Mayavati very well knows that thou her party can do extremely outstanding in UP with an alliance with RLD n SP as the results of the byelections of Sitapur, Phoolpur and Kairana have generated enough confidence and hope in her but keeping both the options open till 2019 suits her tremendously.

She is just watching her party’s performance in the states going tp polls next month and the developments thereafter and will finally decide thereafter. However as for now her only effort would be to sideline the Congress in the grand alliance formation ensuring that she becomes the nucleus n nor Rahul. What’s your take friends?