Elections 1999 - Uttar Pradesh :BSP's New Electoral Strategy Pays Off

The issues over which political parties fought elections in this state throughout the politically volatile decade of the 1990s - mandir and and Mandal - are increasingly becoming irrelevant. In this fluid situation the BSP has emerged a winner in the present elections, retaining and consolidating its dalit vote base even as it evolved a carefully planned electoral strategy which effectively expanded its caste base.