BY RAISING HER NAME AS THE PROSPECTIVE NON BJP PRIME MINISTERIAL CANDIDATE MAYAWATI HAS GIVEN A JOLT TO THE OPPOSITION UNITY INITIATIVES

Right from the days of the formation of the Janata Party, the political conglomeration of unlimited numbers of the then anti Congress Parties in 1977 formed as a credible political alternative at the call of the leader of the total revolution veteran Jay Prakash Narayan against the then draconian emergency which perished like the pack of cards just in 22 months enabling Indira Gandhi to return to power with a historic majority, there is a general impression in the minds of the country’s electorates that the Khichri experiment has always failed in Indian polity.

But later on after the speedily cropping up of the reginal parties in various states two broad unifications came into being one the BJP led NDA and another the United Progressive Alliance led by Congress.

Both these alliances have been ruling the country since then. While the Congress Party is now out of power after its central rule of 10 long years under the remote controlled prime minister Dr. Manmohan Singh having been accused of immense corruption, it was the Narendra Modi’s n BJP’s saffronisation effect and personal charishma that led to the BJP led NDA come to power in 2014 with a historic majority by keeping Congress party at bay with just 40 lawmakers in Lok Sabha and snatching 20 states from it as well as from its alliance partners like SP n BSP etc. in the follow up state elections within two years or so.

Today Narendra Modi has assumed powerful position as an undisputed leader of the saffron party over shadowing the entire party.

The 2019 general elections and the elections in three BJP ruled states are in the offing where anti incumbency is bound to play its vital role thus giving the Congress and the anti BJP forces a better opportunity in case they unite credibly and pose a direct unified challenge to all the sitting chief ministers viz. Vasundhara Raje in Rajasthan, In Jharkhand, Raman Singh in Chattisgarh and Shiv Raj Singh in Madhya Pradesh.

The recent succesful experiment of an opposition non BJP tie up in Karnataka between the Congress and JD(S) has kept the majority party BJP with 104 lawmakers away from gaining power in the state.

Not only this but the wholesome victories in various byelections in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan and Maharashtra followed by Karnataka has also boosted the morale of the non BJP opposition parties sending clear signals that if these anti communal parties forge a credible and honest pre election alliance against the formidable BJP they can by all means sideline the BJP and stop Modi’s political juggernaut from moving ahead.

In fact the Trnamool Congress leader and Bengal CM Mamta Banerjee had made succesful attempts in the recent past to meet all the non BJP leaders and parties including Sonia and Rahul Gandhi to unify them and make absolutely clear that unless all of them do not unite and respect the regional parties and their sentiments becoming political alternative to Narendra Modi and his saffron party would be a distant dream.

Thereafter in Bengaluru on the ocassion of HD Kumaraswamy’s swearing in the entire country witnessed all the national and regional political kshatraps standing on the stage happily cheering to the crowd by waving theirhands in unison, making absolutely clear that the credible and consolidated anti BJP opposition is in the definite making.

Even the BJP high ups at the centre got perturbed with this unified show of strength in Bangaluru and started issuing statements to damage this alliance by saying that this unity is nothing but a political conglomeration of highly over ambitious leaders all of whom want to become the prime minister of the country.

Anyways, while things were trying to take shape for the betterment of opposition unity when just two days ago on 15th July all of a sudden Behan Mayawati, the leader of the Dalits dropped dropped a bombshell on the entire non BJP opposition unity prospects by proposing her name for the prime ministerial candidate thus putting the entire exercise in total disarray and quandary and giving an unambiguous impression that she is helping the BJP rather that the anti BJP forces by creating a verticle division in the unity process.

Political analysts say that such attempts would only create bottlenecks on the way of the opposition unity than to help encourage the ongoing move that was actually moving forward with a strong pace.

If prime minister Narendra Modi and his party is today in an advantageous position despite all its impending ills and failures on several important fronts like prise rise, unemployment, demonetisation, GST, falling agrarian sector, women insecurity etc its only because of the weak and badly distracted non BJP opposition.

And if this trend of opposition distraction continues with the over ambitius leaders not giving up their squeezed and vested interests the re come back of Narendra Modi in 2019 is a definite possibility predict political analysts.
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