Rama, Krishna, Buddha, Mahavira, Ashoka, Harsha, Akbar, Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Choudhary Charan Singh, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Chandra Shekhar and Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The common in all of them is Uttar Pradesh. The land of historical heroes and their major activities.
Rich and tranquil expanses of meadows, perennial rivers, dense forestsand fertile soil of Uttar Pradesh have contributed numerous golden chapters to the annals of Indian History. it plays an important role in the politics, education, culture, industry, agriculture and tourism of India
Uttar Pradesh is surrounded by Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttaranchal and Nepal touch the northern borders of Uttar Pradesh. Area wise it is the fourth largest State of India. Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state in the country accounting for 16.4 per cent of the country’s population. There is no doubt that the history of Uttar Pradesh has run concurrently with the history of the country during and after the British rule.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) led by Mayawati won the 2007 Assembly Elections winning 206 out of 403 seats in the assembly. Samajwadi Party won 97, BJP - 21 and Congress - 22 in the 2007 elections. Mayawati became the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh for the fourth time. This is the first time, since 1991 victory of the BJP with a majority, that a single party has gained absolute majority; the last two decades having been mostly dominated by various coalitions among the samajwadi party, BJP and the BSP.
One characteristic of the BSP win in 2007 was the amalgamation of Brahmin votes into this dalit dominated party, as opposed to the decades-old trend of deep-rooted electoral divisions in the state between Dalits, Upper Castes, Muslims and different OBC groups, which tend to vote in blocks.
The Congress which has dominated state politics till mid 1980s had been losing its ground to socialist parties like currently ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and main opposition Samajwadi Party, till the 2009 general election when Gandhi’s campaign helped the Congress to win 21 seats.
The former Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh has been given charge of overall supervision of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, which are both heading for Assembly elections in less than a year. It seems that Mr. Rajnath Singh has now been given overall charge as he is not only a former Chief Minister of the State but also the most credible anti-Mayawati face the party has.
The former president of the party's state unit, Kalraj Mishra, has been in-charge of State affairs and more recently the former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Uma Bharti, was given the task of rejuvenating the party in the State. Overall BJP is tightening the socks and shoe to have the sprint of leadership in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
While the Congress is hoping to match or even better its 2009 Lok Sabha election tally when it won 21 seats (it had just over 20 in the 2007 Assembly election), the BJP's Lok Sabha tally was just 10 but it had won some 50 Assembly seats in 2007.
Clearly, the most crucial elections for the BJP – as also for the Congress – will be U.P. These two national parties are both looking to improve their performance although reports from the ground suggest they will be fighting for the third and fourth places, with the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party expected to get the first two places.
The Congress party has completed 125 years glorious years. Since independence Indian National Congress (INC) have contested several elections and whether high or low, have always respected the verdict of the people. INC feel that strategies are made for war and not for elections. Election should be contested on the basis of ideology, policies and programmes of political parties.
Unfortunately, the politics in Uttar Pradesh in the past two decades has got stuck in the mire of caste and communal politics. People's issues and development has taken a back seat. The fallout has been a serious slide down in the economic status of the state.
The people in Uttar Pradesh are fed up with the self-serving politics of political parties and ignoring the facts of unity & integrity in the states.
In the 2012 elections, the political parties will be focusing on the deplorable state of governance in Uttar Pradesh and how in the past 22 years, the political parties have betrayed the trust of people by engaging in corrupt practices and caste-communal politics.
Congress is in the process of finalizing the election manifesto in which they want to win the mandate of the people on the basis of growth, development and uplift of the state and its people.
Some farmers are upset over their land being acquired for public projects and then being sold to real estate companies after a considerable mark-up by the government. Intensifying his political campaign in the poll bound Uttar Pradesh, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, who was arrested by the state police during an agitation along with the farmers against land acquisition, launched a padyatra or foot march from Bhatta Parsaul village, the epicentre of farmer protests.
Rahul Gandhi turned out in support of agitating farmers demanding more compensation for their land being acquired for a highway project. He ended his four-day padyatra and organized kishan mahapanchayat at Aligarh
Uttar Pradesh is run by “dalal” (broker), the statement by Rahul gained news paper headline with furious feedback by state ruling party.
2012 election of UP is going to be the acid test for many including Rahul Gandhi, Rajnath Sinh, Uma Bharti, Mulayamsingh Yadav and definitely for mayavatiji.
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