JD (U)-BJP must join hands for UP polls

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RATAN SHARGA

11 February, 2011

The biggest problem with both the parties i.e. the JD(U) and the BJP is that both have become headless in the state which holds the key to Parliament with 80 Lok Sabha seats and has always played a crucial role in the formation of government.

AS THE Janta Dal United (JD-U)-Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) coalition created history in the recently concluded Bihar polls giving their alliance a landslide victory in the house and reduced the entire opposition into a non-entity, the parties need to make a similar alliance in Uttar Pradesh too where both the BJP and JD(U) should contest elections jointly and it is high time the party leaders sit together to chalk out their political strategy in order to combat the political might of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in the state. Both the parties did extremely well in Bihar under the dynamic leadership of Nitish Kumar, and time has come when leaders from both the BJP and JD (U) must sit together along with their respective state presidents and district unit heads to get some seat sharing formula which can brighten their chances in the upcoming polls in Uttar Pradesh.

Right now both the parties are trying hard to gain their political space which has been eaten away either by the BSP or the Samajwadi Party (SP). The Indian National Congress (INC) is also not far behind as the party did fairly better in the last elections and was able to gulp some seats from the BJP that include the prestigious seat of the Lucknow (west) which was taken away by the Congress from the BJP after it became vacant following party MLA Lalji Tandon elevation to Centre as Member of Parliament. The seat which was considered to be in the strong bastion of saffron brigade went to Congress in the by-polls held later after the general elections of 2009.

The biggest problem with both the parties i.e. the JD(U) and the BJP is that both have become headless in the state which holds the key to Parliament with 80 Lok Sabha seats and has always played a crucial role in the formation of government at the Centre. What lacks in both the parties is a mass leader who can take on the aspirations and hopes of the masses to the ballot box. Most of the leadership has become too old and weak and the people of state today want their leader to be dynamic and young at least physically and mentally fit to carry out development works in such a big state. So in the absence of a strong leadership especially missing of second generation leaders, both the parties in Uttar Pradesh need to join hands together and must enroll youth in their cadre to set things right for their own good. They must also find out the leader who can be projected as the next chief minister of Uttar Pradesh under whose banner/flag they would seek votes from the electorate. Till it doesn’t happen, I don’t see any miracle going to take place which can come to rescue both the JD (U) and the BJP in Uttar Pradesh.