Mayawati's ‘insecurities’,Akash Anand removal & BSP future:DK Singh,Dilip Mandal with Shekhar Gupta

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DK: I completely agree with Dilip... goes on to logically rip apart Mandal's point every time

Mandal is too biased in his view of BSP

BSPs biggest enemy is SP & Congress. Since whole opposition wants the same base vote, they’ll have to eliminate each other before competing with BJP.

Caste based parties and caste politics are on the death bed. Most common people have moved on from it (irrespective if which caste they are from) and are aspiring for better things in life. BSP will be gone in a few years, so will the other caste parties like SP, JDS etc

Knowing Mayawati and her vindictive nature , Anand is a gone story . Very soon we will have a new successor announcement maybe around the time of UP assembly elections

Mandal uncle is speaking like he is a representative of BSP.

Kashiram was a leader of ground who worked on ground. He just picked mayawati from a rally. According to me mayawati wasn't that politically knowledgeable. She isn't even working on the ground Never come out from her house. After kanshiram she only won 1 election that too because of anti incumbency of SP. Now BSP is justva jatav party in UP. With 10% votebank they can't win. In 2019 BSP votes wasn't transferred to SP

Never miss a chance to promote walk the talk!

Shekhar sir pls try to be crisp in your screen addressals. Jalebiyaan mt bnane lag Jaya Karo.. Attention drop ho jaati hai

Shekhar ji in 2022 UP election BJP increased its vote share from 39% to 42%. But BSP vote fell from 22% to 12% while SP vote increased to 32%(basically 22% + 4% vote went taken from congress +6% additional vote)

Dilip sahabs optimism about BSP is contagious 😊.....30 saal laga sahab 2 se 272 pohochne mein with a base like RSS

Dileep mandal ka analysis out of earth hai ....he is jem...🤣🤣🤣🤣

in the rarest of chances that NDA gets less than 272 seats, Mayawati will be the first one to offer external support to the BJP

Intelligent and informative discussion🎉. To summarise, if BSP were a stock, Mandal is recommending "hold" for the BSP ticker, while DK went with "sell". Mandal delivered a nice history session but it appears his optimism for BSP's revival was more about hope rather than sound reasoning. Personally, I don't see Muslims abandoning SP but then I'm not from UP. DK was more focussed on current events and perhaps a bit too harsh on the party. Personally, I don't think "pappufication" can happen overnight. Akash Anand is not Rahul Gandhi. Akash seems far more articulate and better at sensing the pulse of the crowd. I think Mandal's explanation is more sound but I concur with DK regarding the party's bleak future. Nevertheless, Yogi will be a 2 term CM in 2027. He'll have to go beyond "law and order" to win a 3rd term. It might sound odd, but before Modi it was actually Mayawati that had united Hindus. Her famous "social engineering" was the talk of the town then but the main problem with these parties is that even for 2% Muslim votes they readily abandon Hindu causes.

Good to see prof dilip mandal in panel . He is true or in classical terminology organic intellectual for majority of indian working caste

Do we remember Shashank Shekhar singh ?

I respect DK Singh.

Excellent Insights...

I think BJP wants SP as opposition compared to BSP as there is soft corner to neutral voters cam shift If SP main opposition BJP easily make Gunda Raj main issue & no neutral voters will shift