Lok Sabha Elections 2024: How different is Akhilesh Yadav’s PDA formula from Mulayam Singh Yadav?

Lok Sabha Elections 2024, Samajwadi Party President of Akhilesh Yadav This time he is contesting the elections on PDA issue only and is also distributing tickets on this basis. This is what the party leaders claim. SP leaders insist that Akhilesh’s PDA will do wonders this time. PDA means Backward Dalits and Minorities. By making changes in some tickets, Akhilesh Yadav wants to give the message that he is the biggest well-wisher of Dalit, Backward and Minority Classes (PDA).

Akhilesh Yadav has given ticket to Dalit leader Awadhesh Prasad on a very important seat like Ayodhya. This is also being said to be the result of PDA. Not only this, he has given ticket once to Naval Kishore Shakya from Farrukhabad. But there is not much difference in the social equations in Ayodhya because in the last Lok Sabha elections, Akhilesh Yadav had fielded Anand Sen Yadav from here. He was also a part of this PDA.

Farrukhabad seat went to BSP in the 2019 elections. Then BSP had fielded a candidate from Vaishya community on this seat, but in 2014 it had fielded Rameshwar Singh Yadav from SP. This time Akhilesh Yadav changed the strategy here and fielded the extremely backward class.

PDA formula visible in ticket distribution

Akhilesh has fielded Iqra Hasan from Kairana. Whereas Tabassum was in the fray in the last election. The important fact is that once again SP gave ticket to Shafiqur Rahman Burke from Sambhal. They fought the same last time also.

After seeing the entire list, it becomes clear that the names in the list have changed, but the social equations have remained the same. At present, from the candidates that SP has fielded, it seems that tickets have been distributed keeping in mind the same social equations which were kept in mind during the time of Mulayam Singh Yadav.

From this it does not seem that there is a bigger difference this time than in the last election. Therefore, questions are being raised that what is the difference between Akhilesh’s PDA and the social equation created by Mulayam Singh Yadav? This is a little difficult to understand.

The figures of ticket distribution that have come out make it clear that Samajwadi Party has earlier also been planning its election journey on the basis of these social equations. Is there any difference between Mulayam’s backward, Dalit and Muslim equation and Akhilesh’s PDA?

The correct answer to this will be known only when all the candidates are declared. The election results will tell what effect Akhilesh’s PDA i.e. Backward Dalits and Minorities will show. It is a different matter that questions have been raised on Akhilesh’s PDA from within his own party.

raising one’s own questions

Samajwadi Party MLA Pallavi Patel has alleged that PDA is not being followed. That means Dalit Backward Minority is not being given importance, but he said this on the basis of Rajya Sabha list.

Not only this, Swami Prasad Maurya has also separated from the party by making the same allegations, but Akhilesh has his own compulsion and this compulsion is faced by all the parties to include all the sections.

This time too, it does not seem that there will be a major change in the equations in the tickets that Akhilesh Yadav is distributing. When Akhilesh Yadav was the Chief Minister from 2012 to 2017, there were allegations that he paid attention only to Muslims and Yadavs. In fact, at that time all these allegations seemed better to SP. Samajwadi Party felt that Muslim and Yadav voters become completely decisive in their favor.

SP has been accused of not paying attention to the most backward people. But the result was that today the extremely backward classes have completely come together with Narendra Modi and for the last several elections, he has been continuously sidelining the opposition parties. Now for the first time, political parties have realized that the Yadav-Muslim equation cannot be decisive unless the extremely backward people come along.

Will the situation change with slogans?

That is why Samajwadi Party remembered the PDA equation. But will the slogan change the situation? Party leaders know that Yadavs and Muslims are completely with them. A former minister of the party says that if PDA is to be completely accepted, then major changes will have to be made in ticket distribution. That is, by giving less tickets to Yadavs and Muslims, more importance should be given to the extremely backward people in ticket distribution. But it also has its own dangers.

It may not happen that by giving less tickets to Yadavs and Muslims, the votes of both the classes get scattered. There are about five seats like this. Who lives near the Saifai family. These include Kannauj, Mainpuri, Firozabad, Badaun and Azamgarh and all are Yadav dominated seats.

The biggest problem facing Akhilesh is that all his family members want to contest elections and this desire is increasing day by day. In Western Uttar Pradesh, it is the compulsion of SP or other non-BJP parties to field as many Muslim candidates as possible, because there are about half a dozen such seats where Muslim voters are in large numbers.

Akhilesh is not able to use PDA properly?

Congress is going to field Muslim faces on two out of three seats in Western Uttar Pradesh. Akhilesh Yadav is sure that not only in Western Uttar Pradesh but in the entire state, Muslim voters will be with the Congress and SP alliance.

A Samajwadi Party leader says that neither Mayawati nor Akhilesh could use the PDA as well as Mulayam Singh Yadav did for their welfare. The result of the way Mulayam Singh Yadav managed the social equation was that SP remained at the center of politics even in adverse circumstances.

He raised leaders from different classes and also used them. This challenge has come before the opposition parties because Narendra Modi is standing in front of them and he is continuously proving that he is closest to the backward and Dalits. Backwards and Dalits are working as a lifeline for them and Akhilesh Yadav wants to snatch this lifeline from them.

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