BSP dissolves Punjab state unit
After the party’s debacle in the Lok Sabha elections, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati has disbanded its Punjab unit.
By Viney Sharma, ET Bureau |
CHANDIGARH: After the party���s debacle in the Lok Sabha elections, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati has disbanded its Punjab unit. BSP had contested elections on all the 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab on its own, but all BSP candidates had to forfeit their security deposits.
BSP general secretary Narender Kashyap was in Jalandhar to attend a meeting to review the party���s poor performance in the Lok Sabha polls in the state. ���All the units, from block level to the state-level executive body, have been disbanded,��� Mr Kashyap said. The party won���t be making any changes in case of the Chandigarh unit, headed by Harmohan Singh Dhawan, but in case of Haryana, BSP has already dissolve its party units on June 4.
All the four BSP MPs, which Punjab has sent to Parliament in last 15 years, come from Doaba region, a stronghold of BSP. But the results of past five elections in the state since 1998 reveals that the party���s vote share has been consistently on the decline. BSP���s vote percentage has decreased substantially even in districts like Hoshiarpur and Jalandhar, which were once stronghold of BSP.
At the same time, BSP national secretary general Mann Singh Manhera, who is also coordinator of Chandigarh, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, feels that restructuring would pave a way for new faces in the party and would strengthen the party further. ���We may not have performed well in parliamentary elections but if you take a look at BSP���s performance in last few municipal corporation and panchayat elections, our party has done fairly well,��� he said.
BSP general secretary Narender Kashyap was in Jalandhar to attend a meeting to review the party���s poor performance in the Lok Sabha polls in the state. ���All the units, from block level to the state-level executive body, have been disbanded,��� Mr Kashyap said. The party won���t be making any changes in case of the Chandigarh unit, headed by Harmohan Singh Dhawan, but in case of Haryana, BSP has already dissolve its party units on June 4.
All the four BSP MPs, which Punjab has sent to Parliament in last 15 years, come from Doaba region, a stronghold of BSP. But the results of past five elections in the state since 1998 reveals that the party���s vote share has been consistently on the decline. BSP���s vote percentage has decreased substantially even in districts like Hoshiarpur and Jalandhar, which were once stronghold of BSP.
At the same time, BSP national secretary general Mann Singh Manhera, who is also coordinator of Chandigarh, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, feels that restructuring would pave a way for new faces in the party and would strengthen the party further. ���We may not have performed well in parliamentary elections but if you take a look at BSP���s performance in last few municipal corporation and panchayat elections, our party has done fairly well,��� he said.
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