‘Social engineering’ to be BSP’s trump card for Delhi

Six candidates have been chosen from among government servants BSP has also constituted 17 “Bhaichara Committees” as part of its outreach programme NEW DELHI: For the Congress in the Capital, the battle with the Bahujan Samaj Party in the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections later this year will not be restricted to the 12 reserved Scheduled Caste constituencies but extend to other parts of the city as well. For Mayawati’s party has adopted the same “social engineering” concept for Delhi that it had employed so successfully for the last Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. With the battle of the ballot in Delhi also being multi-cornered, any rise of the BSP would not bode well for the Congress for it would mean a split in “secular votes” and gain for the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is confident of a good showing and is seeking to... [read full story]