BSP goes solo in 2024 UP election, aiming to consolidate Dalit support despite declining votes. Mayawati faces challenge from rivals in three-cornered contest.
Former Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister and Rajya Sabha MP Dinesh Sharma, who was present at one of these outreach campaigns, said that it was a Dalit, who had placed the first brick for the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav had been trying to add and expand non-Yadav OBC and Dalit base to the party’s original Muslim-Yadav support base in U.P. since 2022