After Poll Drubbing, BSP Dissolves Entire Executive Body Except 3 Posts

Lucknow: The Bahujan Samaj Party has dissolved the party’s executive body except for the posts of state president, assembly speaker and district president, on Sunday. Three chief coordinators have been named

The three leaders are Munkad Ali from Meerut, Rajkumar Gautam from Bulandshahr, and Vijay Kumar from Azamgarh. These three coordinators will also be the in-charge of the state.

The party had called for a review meeting on March 27, after witnessing a defeat in the Assembly elections. 

 In the meeting, BSP also appointed Mayawati’s nephew Akash Anand as its national coordinator.

BSP’s Umashankar Singh Balla speaking with the news agency ANI said, “The meeting is called upon to discuss the performance of the party in 2022 Assembly elections. In the previous elections in 2017 too, though we attained a lesser number of seats, we had 1.9 per cent more votes than Samajwadi Party.”

In the 2007 Assembly elections, BSP had gained a full majority in Uttar Pradesh. But after 2007, the party’s performance has gone down. This time, it managed to bag just one seat with a 12.88 per cent vote share, as the Yogi Adityanath led BJP government won the elections, and returned to the power in the State.

On March 11, Mayawati had admitted that her party’s rout in the Uttar Pradesh assembly election was a “lesson”. However, the BSP supremo had asked party workers to not feel discouraged, promising to make a comeback.

“We should learn from it, introspect, and carry forward our party movement, and come back to power,” Mayawati had said. “Before 2017, BJP did not have a good stake in Uttar Pradesh. Likewise, today, Congress is also undergoing the same phase as BJP… UP election result is a lesson for us to continue putting in efforts.”

On Sunday the BSP has also fielded Shah Alam, alias Guddu Jamali, as its candidate for the by-elections to the Azamgarh Lok Sabha seat.