Akhilesh Yadav, the son of the Samajwadi Party patriarch who was being promoted as the future of Indian politics by the left-liberal establishment in 2012, emerged to be the biggest failure within a decade. Just like Rajiv Gandhi destroyed the biggest ever mandate of 1984 within 5 years, Akhilesh Yadav not only destroyed the biggest ever mandate and faced a humiliating loss after becoming the youngest ever CM of the largest state in the country but also split the family into many factions and irked his father.
He has emerged as a big failure since 2012 when he got the CM seat on the platter, thanks to the legacy of his father, Mulayam Singh Yadav. In the last decade, he not only destroyed the legacy of ‘Netaji’ and plunged the party built over the last few decades, but failed in governance and leadership.
The results of the recent District Council President elections show that under the leadership of Akhilesh Yadav, the party is set to face another humiliating loss in the 2022 assembly elections.
This comes as a big humiliation to Akhilesh Yadav led Samajwadi Party that won big time in the last district body President elections and pushed very hard in this election too. Etawah, Etah, Sant Kabir Nagar, Azamgarh and Ballia are among the 6 seats that SP could win and RLD bagged one seat.
Instead of reflecting on the reasons behind the loss, Akhilesh Yadav blamed the BJP for using force to win the elections, just like Congress leaders blame EVM after every election loss. “To convert its defeat into victory, the BJP got the voters kidnapped, used force with the help of police and administration to stop them from voting,” the SP chief alleged in a party release.
On this, Yogi Adityanath said that when BJP wins, the opposition parties blame EVM and administration, if SP had won, they would have called it hard work.
If Akhilesh Yadav remains complacent like this and creates flimsy reasons for his failures, he would make Samajwadi Party history within the next few years.
In 2017 Assembly polls, BJP managed to receive a gigantic mandate by securing a 41.4 per cent vote share, which translated to the BJP winning 325 seats in a 403-member state assembly. Nobody had anticipated such a huge wave of Yogi Adityanath in the state and the opposition and detractors were left dumbfounded at the magnitude of the victory.
Fast forward four years, Yogi has become the tallest leader in the country. From developing UP into an industrial state to reducing crime to tackling the first and second wave of the coronavirus pandemic effectively, UP has grown strength to strength with Yogi at the helm.
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As reported by TFI, according to an ABP-C Voter survey conducted in March earlier this year, if elections were to be held now, BJP would storm into power once again. The BJP is projected to win 289 seats in the 403-seat Uttar Pradesh Assembly. Meanwhile, SP is projected to be the second-largest party with 59 seats followed by BSP with 38 seats but not posing any real challenge to the BJP.
BJP can afford to let its guard down and go easy on the election preparations but ‘ruthless’ seems to be the keyword passed along from the party high command. The preparations have begun and despite the sorry situation of the opposition especially the BSP, the BJP does not want to leave any loophole in its electoral preparedness. There is no doubt that Yogi is storming back to power, the only question is, by what margin?
