UTTAR PRADESH ELECTION RESULTS AND DOCTOR – SOCIAL ENGINEER @OFFICEOFAMITSHAH

Apart from the Modi factor, the BJP owes its success to its party chief Amit Shah’s strategy of building a successful broad coalition of castes in UP. From appointing Kesav Prasad Maurya as state chief to inducting Swami Prasad Maurya from the BSP to not declaring a CM candidate – all of Amit Shah’s efforts were directed at expanding caste coalitions in UP and not antagonizing any particular caste. In fact, Shah succeed in projecting the UP election as "3 versus the others". The UP election was simplified to make it a fight between SP’s Muslim-Yadav combination and BSP’s Jatavs vs other castes, which were supposed to vote for the BJP. Working on this strategy, the BJP allocated around 150 seats to non-Yadav OBCs in UP. The BJP’s alliance with sub-regional parties like Apna Dal and Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party(SBSP) further helped it consolidate non-Yadav OBC caste groups like the Patels, the Kurmis and the Rajbhars.