Scare grips Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh!

Bhubaneswar (Ajoy Kumar Misra): The feeling that arises from the fear of danger, pain or loss is a very natural thing, it is there in every human being. The remedy to avoid fear is to make it public to reduce it a bit. This fear can also be due to some imaginary or real situation. So now what is the reason for fear, it depends on different individuals why he is scared, but when a scared person starts expressing his fear publicly, then you should understand that the level of fear has increased a lot and he is no more able to deal with it at his level. By expressing it, he tries to avoid the fear. Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is now a man gripped by fear. Fear of losing his political grip in the State’s politics. It was pronounced when he tried to elicit an answer from Union Home Minister Amit Shah during the debate on Waqf Bill in the Lok Sabha on the future of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. He was stunned when Shah said ‘Yogi will be repeated in 2027 when the State Assembly elections are held. Akhilesh, though a chief minister of the country’s biggest state for five years, was childish when seeking to know the political status of Yogi. He has been spreading tales that the UP Chief Minister is now not needed by the BJP and his fate is in doldrum. Perhaps he had wished that Shah says something which he could have capitalised. But his hopes were shattered when Shah’s comments on Yogi stunned him. Surprisingly, it was a debate on the contentious Waqf Amendment Bill. The unprepared Akhilesh spoke about so many things but nothing on the Bill. There could be two reasons. Either he is not aware of the Bill or was sure that no amount of opposition to it would make it fall with BJP or NDA’s strength in the lower House. If one has noticed the debate in Parliament on April 2 in Lok Sabha then he must have understood that a fear has taken root in the mind of the entire opposition. The fear that has taken root in the mind of the opposition is that the Muslim victim card veto that they used to get votes from the Muslims has stopped working. After becoming the Prime Minister in 2014, Modi first ended the veto of Muslim votes. He broke the notion that the one who gets Muslim votes will come to power and he did this work at the national level and at the state level.One example is Uttar Pradesh where the Muslim population and the influence of Muslim population on politics is the highest in the country in comparison to any state excepting Jammu & Kashmir which is a Muslim dominated state. The veto of Muslim voters used to work in Uttar Pradesh and Assam. But Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party has broken it. In Assam, BJP has formed the government for the second time and in Uttar Pradesh also for the second time and at the national level, the government has been formed for the third time. But with this Amendment Bill, Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party have broken the confidence of the opposition parties. The confidence of the opposition parties that no matter what happens, Muslims will stand united with them on such issues and there will be no division among Muslims, has been belied. The debate in Parliament and the kind of reaction across the country after that makes one understand how much the situation has changed since the CAA protest. On both issues, the opposition relied on lies and propaganda and told imaginary things to mislead the Muslims or trying to provoke them. The lies that there was threat to their religion, society and social status have been debunked. listening to the speeches of the opposition leaders were like the ones coming from a defeated warrior. The Leader of the Opposition– Rahul Gandhi—was absent during the debate. It was virtually running away from the battlefield or surrendering before fighting a battle. The speech of Akhilesh Yadav gave a clear hint of feat in him about the future of his party in Uttar Pradesh. The two-three things he said are enough indication. He said that the ruling BJP is trying to divide the Muslims. But Akhilesh’s entire politics has been about dividing the Hindus. He said that now the PDA will divide. He did not say that it will divide the Hindus. But the PDA was formed to divide the Hindus. This was not his confidence, but the fear that was loud. If Akhilesh loses in 2027, then he will find it really difficult to save his party for the next five years. The fear of Yogi Adityanath has snatched his sleep. His comment on BJP’s delay in finding a new national president was also another aspect that showed the wary of the former UP chief Minister. He was snubbed by Shah who said that BJP was a party of over 12 crore ‘karyakartas’ unlike the Samajwadi party which is dominated by one family.Shah said that the people of this country have trusted the BJP thrice, trusted the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the third time in a row and the BJP government will be formed for the next three times as well. Akhilesh Yadav is not worried about who is at the Centre because coming to the Centre is not in his power, it is not in his party’s power and his party cannot even dream that it will ever form the government at the Centre. The scope of his dream is Uttar Pradesh. His party does not exist outside Uttar Pradesh, so there is no question of coming to power or dreaming anything like this. Shah in fact has increased Akhilesh Yadav’s fear even more by saying that Yogi ji will be repeated again. Asking questions on Yogi ji is proof of Akhilesh Yadav’s fear becoming institutionalised. Now he will not be able to get out of this fear till 2027, after that he will not be in a position to even think about it. The direction in which his party is going and the direction in which he is taking the party, the path from there leads only downwards, not up.