Enthused by the response to its efforts for political mobilisation like Brahmin sammelan, Kisan – Naujawan-Patel Yatra, the Samajwadi Party has decided to intensify the campaign which is likely to last till next three months.
“Bahujan Samaj Party has just completed the first phase of prabuddh sammelan in all 75 districts of the state to woo the Brahmin community. We cannot afford to lag behind and the party will intensify its campaign and organise prabuddh sammelans to influence the Brahmins and other social groups,” said MLA and president of Samajwadi Prabuddh Sabha, Manoj Pandey.
He is supervising the party’s programme for political mobilisation.
He said along with four big meetings, the SP would organise seminars at each of the 25 development blocks of the state spread in 75 districts. The block-level meetings will commence from Thursday and are likely to be completed in a fortnight.
Samajwadi Party is also focusing its attention on Bundelkhand region. The Bharatiya Janata Party in 2014, 2019 Lok Sabha elections and 2017 UP assembly elections wiped out the Samajwadi Party from its erstwhile bastion. The SP will organise prabuddh sammelan in Banda and Chitrakoot on September 19.
A senior Samajwadi Party leader said that due to the lack of efforts for political mobilisation by the party in the last five years, it had almost lost communication with the masses.
“The Bharatiya Janata Party has become default choice of the voters in Bundelkhand as the Samajwadi Party is missing from the ground for the last several years and intense political mobilisation is the only option to revive the link with the masses,” the SP leader said.
Samajwadi Party is also upbeat over the turnout of the people in the Kisan Yatra being taken out by party state president Naresh Uttam. The party claims that the people are no longer attracted by the face of the leader but by the flag and identity of the party.
“Earlier, huge crowds used to gather in the meetings addressed by Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav and attendance was low in the meetings addressed by other leaders of the party. The situation has now changed and meetings organised by party MLAs and leaders in different districts are drawing huge crowds which is a clear indication that the people are not happy with the BJP government and they want a change,” Manoj Pandey said.
Another SP leader from east UP said, “Party president Akhilesh Yadav cannot visit each and every district and we are working on his instruction and district leaders are organising programmes in each district to mobilise the people, and they are getting very good response,”
The SP leader claimed the party was fast making inroads particularly in east UP districts and people were attracted more by the party programmes than the leader.
