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Six parties form Janata Parivar
The six political parties of the Janata Parivar had unanimously elected the Samajwadi Party supreme Mulayam Singh Yadav as its leader to lead against the incumbent BJP which is in power at the Centre. The unnamed party is in its embryonic stage because it did not chart out its policy, priorities, what it stands for but made it clear it will fight against the BJP.
Is Mulayam strong enough to lead Third Front minus Left Front?
New Delhi: The six political parties of the Janata Parivar had unanimously elected the Samajwadi Party supreme Mulayam Singh Yadav as its leader to lead against the incumbent BJP which is in power at the Centre. The unnamed party is in its embryonic stage because it did not chart out its policy, priorities, what it stands for but made it clear it will fight against the BJP.
The decision was announced in Delhi by Janata Dal-United president Sharad Yadav after a meeting of six parties that included Janata Dal-Secular, Rashtriya Janata Dal, Indian National Lok Dal and Samajwadi Janata Party.A six-member committee, including H D Deve Gowda, Lalu Yadav, Sharad Yadav and Ramgopal Yadav to decide on issues like name and flag of the party.
The group is likely to inherit the SP flag and its electoral symbol of the “bicycle”, even though some constituents favour retrieving the original Janata symbol – the wheel. Some leaders also want the SP’s red and green flag to have a stripe of white - to symbolise the new party’s pluralistic and socialist philosophy.
Undoubtedly, Mulayam Singh Yadav is the potent political leader in the cow-belt because his party is in power in India’s most populous state where the BJP won 72/80 MP seats in the last General Election of 2014. Can Mulayam galvanize the voters of northern India to veer towards his party? Will he be able to attract other regional parties to his fold? Will he make a gesture to the Left Front to join the party in order to rally against the communal or the rightist BJP?
Mulayam lacks the stature of Morarji Desai and VP Singh who successfully crusaded against the Congress and had become the Prime Ministers of India in 1970s and 1980s respectively. Unlike their times, Mulayam has to take on the BJP now and also to some extent against the Congress.
BJP mocks at Janata merger
New Delhi: The BJP in Bihar mocked the proposed amalgamation, saying it would have "no impact" on the upcoming state elections. "Merger experiments have flopped in the past and will meet the same fate this time too...It's beyond comprehension as to how 3-4 swords would remain in one scabbard," senior BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi told reporters. Recalling that such experiments had flopped earlier as well, Modi said, "Four parties had come together in 1977 but they withered away in less than one year. Again, in 1989, the coming together of parties did not last long."
