Chandigarh, May 29
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati failed to strike a local chord at the North Zone Workers’ Conference here today.Even as the BSP leader raised accusing fingers at the Opposition’s attempts to “destablise” the UP government she failed to even mention Chandigarh in her 44-minute speech in the backdrop of the forthcoming elections to the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh (MCC) later this year.
While she specially mentioned Punjab, where elections are due early next year, Chandigarh’s “omission” from the speech clearly disheartended the party cadre, who were naturally expecting a pep talk from her leader.
“We sweated it out for several weeks to make the rally a grand success. However, party supremo’s brief mention of the party’ s strategy for the forthcoming MC polls could have a been a morale booster for the local cadre,” a senior local leader requesting anonymity, said.
The local leadership, including in charge of the party affairs for Chandigarh Narinder Kashyap, has been camping at the rally ground in Sector 25 for several days to make “fool proof” arrangements for the rally, which was touted to be a show of strength ahead of the Punjab Assembly elections.
In fact, today’s speech was in sharp contrast to the speech she delivered before the May 2009 Lok Sabha elections in April 2009 in support of party candidate Harmohan Dhawan. On that occasion, she seemed to have a good grasp of the local politics and had lashed out at the local government for giving a raw deal to the residents on civic amenities front in a modern city like Chandigarh. Incidently, while other mainline national parties barring the Congress and the BJP are yet to open their account in the MC, the BSP bagged one seat in the 2006 civic body elections. It is customary for the top national leaders to talk about the local issues whenever they address rallies in the respective states and union territories.
However, party leaders claimed that mere presence of the BSP chief at the rally sent the right signal to the party cadre in the run up to the MC poll and would serve as a morale booster. Since it was a north zone convention, the mention of the MC poll would have been a bit out of place. “We will make efforts to call the BSP supremo again ahead of the MC poll when she can talk about the local issues in detail,” a senior leader added.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati failed to strike a local chord at the North Zone Workers’ Conference here today.Even as the BSP leader raised accusing fingers at the Opposition’s attempts to “destablise” the UP government she failed to even mention Chandigarh in her 44-minute speech in the backdrop of the forthcoming elections to the Municipal Corporation of Chandigarh (MCC) later this year.
While she specially mentioned Punjab, where elections are due early next year, Chandigarh’s “omission” from the speech clearly disheartended the party cadre, who were naturally expecting a pep talk from her leader.
“We sweated it out for several weeks to make the rally a grand success. However, party supremo’s brief mention of the party’ s strategy for the forthcoming MC polls could have a been a morale booster for the local cadre,” a senior local leader requesting anonymity, said.
The local leadership, including in charge of the party affairs for Chandigarh Narinder Kashyap, has been camping at the rally ground in Sector 25 for several days to make “fool proof” arrangements for the rally, which was touted to be a show of strength ahead of the Punjab Assembly elections.
In fact, today’s speech was in sharp contrast to the speech she delivered before the May 2009 Lok Sabha elections in April 2009 in support of party candidate Harmohan Dhawan. On that occasion, she seemed to have a good grasp of the local politics and had lashed out at the local government for giving a raw deal to the residents on civic amenities front in a modern city like Chandigarh. Incidently, while other mainline national parties barring the Congress and the BJP are yet to open their account in the MC, the BSP bagged one seat in the 2006 civic body elections. It is customary for the top national leaders to talk about the local issues whenever they address rallies in the respective states and union territories.
However, party leaders claimed that mere presence of the BSP chief at the rally sent the right signal to the party cadre in the run up to the MC poll and would serve as a morale booster. Since it was a north zone convention, the mention of the MC poll would have been a bit out of place. “We will make efforts to call the BSP supremo again ahead of the MC poll when she can talk about the local issues in detail,” a senior leader added.
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