Win Win Bahujan Samaj Party: Much Beyond Uttar Pradesh

Book Summary of Win Win Bahujan Samaj Party : Much Beyond Uttar Pradesh The book is an endeavor of tracing the trajectory of Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) from a petty regional party to a national party and emerged as a potent threat to two major National parties. The pragmatic leadership of Kanshiram brought the BSP at the center-stage of Uttar Pradesh politics. And there onwards the strategic maneuvering by Mayawati by undertaking huge all-inclusive political game plan of Sarvajan Hitay earned her a majority in Uttar Pradesh assembly. She has been managing to consolidate the vote share of Underclass and rallying the support of Upper Caste communities in other sates of India to play decisive role at the Centre. The book attempts to discuss the different shades of social engineering, projection of Congress itself as secular, Hindutva, issues of reservation and visionary Mayawati. Table of Contents : Acknowledgements Overview of Under Class 1. Pledge to Nurture the Mindset 2. Era of Pragmatic Politics 3. Political Ascendancy 4. Kanshiram Effect 5. Mayawati-The Real Hard Task Master 6. The Part of Celebration: The Open Invitation 7. Bahujan Samaj Partys Pan India Dream 8. The Magic of Unity 9. Tame the Caste Violence Within 10. Pretentiously Yours 11. Different Stroke: The BSP Since 19842 12. The Power of being in the Power 13. The Interpreters, Sermonizers and Contradictions: Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress 14. The BSP in the Context of Social Engineering About author : Praful Shakya is an engineer by qualification as well as profession. He also had a brief sojourn as a journalist for Maharashtra Herald (currently Sakal Times) and Times of India, Pun