It's party time: With any election in UP, new parties pop up, then disappear without a trace

 

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Lucknow, May 7 (IANS) There is something in Uttar Pradesh that happens during elections -- before and after -- new political parties are born at an alarming rate.

A majority of the parties that mushroom during elections tend to bask in reflected glory with names that sound suspiciously similar to established political parties.

These parties are registered but unrecognised with the State Election Commission.

For instance, there are parties with names that sound similar to the Bahujan Samaj Party. These include Bahujan Maha Party, Bahujan Mukti Party, Bahujan Kranti Party and Bahujan Vijay party.

A retired official of the State Election Commission, said, "Most of these parties are promoted by the main political parties so that they can get additional booth agents and additional vehicles in the name of these parties. Most of these parties with names similar to a bigger party, do not make an effort to popularise themselves. However, at times, such parties also damage the main outfit by creating confusion in the mind of the voter."

The Samajwadi Party clones include Subhaswadi Bhartiya Samajwadi Party, Bhartiya Samajwadi Party, Naveen Samajwadi Dal, Sanyukt Samajwadi Dal and Rashtriya Krantikari Samajwadi Party.

Among the 127 registered parties with the UP State Election Commission, there are parties with names like Hi-Tech Party, Right to Recall Party, Adhi Abadi Party, Sabka Dal United, Vidhayak Dal, Log Party, Bahadur Aadmi Party, Apni Zindagi, Apna Dal, Islam Party and Gadar Party.

There are also parties with names having religious overtones like Hindu Ekta Andolan Party, Islam Party Hind and Ambedkar Kranti Dal.

However, candidates of these parties are nowhere to be seen in the ongoing municipal elections.

In the 2017 UP Assembly elections, the relatively unknown Pichhda Varg Mahapanchayat Party (PVMP) had contested the polls with the matchstick as its poll symbol.

The party claimed to have the support of OBCs "who have been betrayed by almost all parties" and said it will contest all 403 seats.

The PVMP failed to make any waves in the polls and its performance was not even worth recording.

The party vanished from the political horizon after that.

The Sarv Sambhav Party (SSP), headed by Bollywood actor Rajpal Yadav, met with a similar fate.

The SSP entered the poll arena in the state in 2017. "I have been training my two brothers in politics for over a decade, now they are ready to take a dive," Rajpal Yadav had said at a press conference then.

The actor, however, admitted that his party may not win any seats this time, but said he was preparing for the next Parliament or Assembly polls. "Until the right time arrives for us, we will use social media to make our ideology reach the people," he said.

Nothing was heard about the SSP or its leaders after that.

An SEC official said that the registration of political parties was often done with ulterior motives.

"The Election Commission should debar parties that register themselves and then do not contest elections or even get a specified number of votes. Many of these outfits make good money during elections by outsourcing their agents and vehicles. Strict action needs to be taken in cases of such parties," he said.

--IANS
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Manipur violence explained: What is reason behind Manipur riots?

 

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Ethnic violence, which has engulfed Manipur over the last few days, was brewing for some time as a long history of mutual suspicion between ethnic groups in the Imphal valley and its surrounding hills turned into a simmering conflict after the BJP-led Manipur government started a drive to evict tribal villagers from reserved forests.

The escalation in violence in Manipur has its roots in an over 10-year-old demand by the Meitei community for a Scheduled Tribe tag. The immediate reason for this violence, however, is a Manipur High Court order directing the state government to recommend to the Union Tribal Affairs Ministry by May 29, an ST tag for the community. The petitioners have argued that this community had once enjoyed the ST tag prior to the merger of Manipur with the Indian Union and have sought the restoration of this status.

The Manipur HC directive triggered protests with thousands of people on Wednesday participating in a 'Tribal Solidarity March' called by a student body in all the ten hill districts of Manipur to oppose the demand for the inclusion of the Meitei community in the ST list.

The government in Manipur, regardless of which party comes to power, has always been dominated by plainsmen Meiteis, who account for about 53 per cent of the state's population and live mostly in irregular oval-shaped Imphal Valley.

Consequently, the government's actions have often been viewed through the prism of suspicion by tribals -- mostly Nagas and Kukis -- who make up 40 per cent of Manipur's population and live for the most part in the hills surrounding the valley.

Interestingly, the fertile Imphal valley makes up for about a tenth of the total land mass of the state while the surrounding hills, ideal for militant hide-outs and home to a long-running insurgency, account for 90 per cent of the state's lands.

The eviction drive, which began in February, was seen as yet another anti-tribal move, leading to alarm and widespread discontent not only among the Kuki community which was affected by it but also other tribals who have many villages within reserved forest areas.

Ahead of Chief Minister N Biren Singh's visit to Churachandpur district last week, a mob vandalised and set on fire the venue in New Lamka town where he was scheduled to address a function.

The mob also managed to partially torch a newly set up open gym which Singh, an ethnic Meitei, was slated to inaugurate on Friday afternoon.

The attack took place barely 11 hours prior to a 'total shutdown' called by the Indigenous Tribe Leaders Forum in the entire Churachandpur district.

The Forum claimed that despite the repeated submission of memorandums to the government protesting the ongoing eviction drive to clear reserved forests of farmers and other tribal settlers, "the government has shown no sign of willingness or sincerity in addressing the plight of people".

General secretary of the Kuki Students Organisation, Churachandpur, D J Haokip, told PTI, "Several areas in the hill district have been declared as reserved forests, protected forests and hundreds of Kuki tribals have been dislodged from their traditional settlement area."

"The anguish of the Kuki people is not about the evictions but the failure to provide rehabilitation to more than hundreds of those affected," Haokip added.

The Kukis are represented by 10 legislators, including five BJP MLAs, in the 60-member Manipur Assembly. The Kuki People's Alliance (KPA), which is an ally of the ruling BJP government, has two MLAs.

"We have six MLAs from Churachandpur district and the Indigenous Tribal Leaders Forum (ITLF) has asked them to come out and state their stance on the eviction drive. If they fail to respond, our future course of action will include socially boycotting them," Haokip said.

Earlier in March, a violent clash occurred at Thomas Ground in Kangpokpi district where protesters tried to hold a mass rally against "encroachment of tribal lands in the name of reserved forests, protected forests and wildlife sanctuary".

Five persons were injured in that rally following which the state cabinet withdrew the tripartite Suspension of Operations (SoO) talks with two Kuki-based militant outfits, Kuki National Army and Zomi Revolutionary Army.

SoO agreement is a ceasefire arrangement inked by the Centre, state government and Kuki outfits that began more than a decade ago.

The cabinet also reiterated its stance that the "state government will not compromise on steps taken to protect the state government's forest resources and for eradicating poppy cultivation".

Even as discontent grew over the eviction of the villagers, three churches in Imphal's Tribal colony area were demolished on April 11 for being "illegal constructions" on government land, leading to more discontent.

This meant that when the 'Tribal Solidarity March' organised by the All Tribal Student Union Manipur (ATSUM) was announced for Wednesday to protest the move to grant ST status to the Meitei community, there were justified apprehensions that this could lead to tension clashes.

The march was organised by Nagas and Kuki tribals after the Manipur High Court asked the state government last month to send a recommendation to the Centre within four weeks on the demand for ST status by the Meitei community.

However, no one imagined that it would degenerate into the spiral of violence which engulfed the state often called the jewel of the northeast like a forest fire, killing and wounding scores, forcing thousands of people to flee from their homes and see the central government rushing in large numbers of Army, Assam Rifles and central police forces to contain the situation.