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Out of energy for over 3 a long time and and not using a distinct caste-community mixture that make up its core voters, Congress appears to be making an attempt to construct a brand new constituency of voters
“Ka kiye ho [What have you done?]”- the Congress’s video tune for the Bihar Assembly elections launched on Friday final, comprising haunting photos of migrant employees heading again residence after the nation-wide COVID-19 lockdown was introduced, appears to be part of a transparent technique to faucet migrant employees’ ‘anger’.
The hardship confronted by the poor within the preliminary days of the lockdown is a recurrent theme of the Congress’s ballot marketing campaign in an try and painting the BJP-led authorities on the Centre and the Nitish Kumar-led NDA dispenation within the State as “insensitive”.
“Lakhs of our brothers and sisters from from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have had to walk back thousands of kilometres. And in Bihar, Nitish Babu [Chief Minister] had said that they wouldn’t be allowed”, Congress basic secretary Randeep Surjewala, who’s now overseeing the social gathering’s marketing campaign, informed reporters in Patna on Tuesday.
Out of energy for over three a long time and and not using a distinct caste-community mixture that make up its core voters, the Congress appears to be making an attempt to construct a brand new constituency of voters that manages to transcend caste boundaries on the premise of shared experiences.
Sonia’s name
Setting the tone for the Bihar elections, social gathering president Sonia Gandhi informed her colleagues at a digital assembly final Sunday, “The country was pushed into the abyss of Corona pandemic by sheer ineptitude and mismanagement of the Modi Government. All this happened as we witnessed the biggest unplanned, unmanaged and cruel migration of crores of migrant labourers as Government remained a mute spectator to their miseries”.
According to a written reply by the Ministry of Labour in Parliament final month, there are an estimated 15 lakh migrant employees who had returned to Bihar because the lockdown was imposed in March. And the Congress is clearly eyeing a piece of this voting phase to come back its manner.
Political analysts’ view
Political analysts, nevertheless, are sceptical concerning the consequence.
“As far as migrant labourers are concerned, many of them have returned to places like Mumbai, Chandigarh, Ludhiana and other places. They are not well to travel again to vote. And even if they do, caste and clan loyalties will play a part”, Professor Ashutosh Kumar, chairperson of the Department of Political Science, Panjab University, stated about his native State.
“It’s a good narrative and sounds good but I am not sure of its impact, as elections in Bihar are fought on caste lines. And the Congress has been a winnable party since the 1990s and has lost the support of even its traditional voters like Harijans and Muslims. But because of their alliance with the Rashtriya Janata Dal, they can hope to get votes from the Yadavs and Muslims”, he added
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