UP election: An image makeover time for Congress.

Today Congress has released their vision 2020 for Uttarpradesh at the moment when every party is eyeing uttar Pradesh election as very crucial for their parties’ identity. Though BSP and SP donot visible in this race but Congress and BJP are taking big chances this time. I can understand that BSP is a ruling party at this point of time in UttarPradesh and Samajwadi Party is one which is best suited for the ruling parties flip of the government. But this time Congress is very keen on their image makeover and Rahul Gandhi’s extensive ‘yatra’ across UP and this manifesto ‘Vision 2020’ are an attempt for improving the chances for getting more winning seats this time. Im confident that this time Congress will improve upon its numbers one because people of Uttarpradesh are fed up of corruption, unemployment, poverty and ‘not positive attitude for business’ promoted by their existing government and the Samajwadi party in past. Second, I believe that this time congress must have exchanged huge amount of money doing the Rahul Gandhi’s yatra across UP cities and villages. It must be influencing for voters directly or indirectly. Also, I would like to add here that BhartiyaJanta Party (BJP) is not able to capitalize on the corruption issues happened in the congress tenure and the weak presence of Congress in UP. Apart from that industrialist from across UP and other states do not see BJP as their supporter, so funding for the BJP election campaign is another big issue for them. Also their choice and leaders for campaign like Uma Bharti might not be appropriate in a sense to woo Muslim or minority voters in upcoming election, if I talk about her inclination for open support for Hindutva philosophy where religious minorities are showing their dissent. When I show Congress’s election manifesto for UP then they have talk about corruption, employment for 2000000 lakh people in next 5 years ( which is merely 10% of total unemployment at this point of time), rationalizing the reservation quota system in terms of providing more reservation for minorities and providing more opportunities for local small scale business owners to improve on the local skill and for the migrant workers as well in UP. I support the idea of reforming the local skill of working so that people who are associated with their profession can improve upon and create wealth and employment opportunities for others and it will help in local people to preserve their old professions as well for which UP or India is known for. But how much it is possible to do it for Congress, I have serious doubt over that. Because we have to see their achievements in this regard at the center level or in the states where they are ruling. Other points in the manifesto are very common to the others. Commenting on the quota system is again a typical tactic for wooing the minority voters and I don’t think so that security/safety to the local people is at all achievable for Congress. Took the example of Delhi itself. And also mental safety is more important than the physical security, see the terrorist attack in Congress government tenure and the corrupt scandals like CWG scams and 2G schemes which have lead to the biggest financial scams in the history of India and indirectly affecting fellow countrymen and their safety rights.


I believe, in fact I support BJP at this point of time to campaign in UP for upcoming election and prepare themselves for winning the UP once again by 1) campaigning for the election freely by good leaders 2) Targeting congress and BSP for their corruption in center and in UP respectively and their development graph in both center and UP 3) More focus on providing opportunities for industrialization which can indirectly create Job opportunities for people of Uttarpradesh and 4) More focus on Education, Health and women rights.