@anuragsingh
Political Consultant
Karan Dev
@Karan.Dev · 1:33
Uttar Pradesh 2022: In conversation with Political Consultant Anurag Singh
Joining me to decode this very interesting election is Anurag Singh, an entrepreneur and a political consultant. He's worked with India's most influential political consultant, Anurag Singh. This is his second time on Swell. So in addition to working on the grassroots in Bihar, he's worked with the winning political party in the state of West Bengal and also worked with the same party, which is a terrible Congress in the general election of 2019 underage. It's great to reconnect with you as well
Anurag Singh
@anuragsingh · 2:35
Hey, Karan, I'm so glad to be back on Swell and discuss elections. And thank you for inviting me. Definitely very exciting elections at our hand with you going to polls, as they say, that the road to PMO goes through Uttrapadesh and that's specifically because of the population of the state that's roughly around one Singh of the population of the country. So yeah, I have my eyes set on the elections
Karan Dev
@Karan.Dev · 0:33
I know that the alliance with the RLG was strategic move, but what do you make of the defections that have been happening from the B JP to the SP? And how do you see that panning out
Anurag Singh
@anuragsingh · 4:37
All right. So coming to Akeley Shadow's campaign, I'm really excited to see how they perform in the upcoming elections, primarily because of the social engineering that accelerated to achieve and specifically going into coalition with smaller parties with very a very targeted support base among different communities. So Akley, Shadow and Samajwadi parties, they have sort of face defeat ingoing collision with Congress in 2017 elections and then with BSP in 2019 general elections
Karan Dev
@Karan.Dev · 0:52
But if you were to think about the BJP and all of this, I think in the last election they really fell back on Demonetization as the ultimate key to cracking both the opposition as well as coming up with a very effective campaign this time around, I was wondering what you make of the consolidation of the Hindu vote and the Raman there and sort of Hindu to as a political tool in this election. Where does the BJP stand?
Anurag Singh
@anuragsingh · 4:10
And this comes with the backdrop of the performance of the up government in the last five years, because they don't really have anything to show for very recently. Even if you look at the state's performance during the pandemic, we technically have no data that was coming out from the state, and there was complete opacity about so we don't know what the reality was. Then there was the Panchat elections that happened in the midst of the pandemic around 2000 primary school teachers or the government teachers
Karan Dev
@Karan.Dev · 1:04
And Moreover, if my other team were to sort of get more active and maybe try and cut down a bit more votes there, how do you make of these players? And, you know, the triangular contest between Occulation, both of these as well
Anurag Singh
@anuragsingh · 2:30
But coming to the Muslim votes in the elections, I honestly think that the Muslims are going to be voting for Samajwadi Party and Akley shadow because they see a clear alternative in him. And if you compare to the last two elections where you spoke about Aim and Oasis, if you look at the last two elections where his party sort of contested was Behavior and West Bengal Bihar, they did manage to Garner some seats
Karan Dev
@Karan.Dev · 1:23
Because most analysts and most people, of course, the assumption is that the one person that wins up the political party that wins up is likely to go on to form the government nationally as well. But that wasn't the case back in 2012. Right. So I think 2012 was Samadhi Party came into power, and then Narendra Modi swept the election again in 2014. So there have been slight variances in that general sort of trend that UV follows
Anurag Singh
@anuragsingh · 2:22
And if by any chance or even Samarwadi Party, even if they come close to winning this election, this will be a big jolt to the party. And I think this will regenerate the entire opposition in a manner where they can think if BGP can lose ground, and if they can lose up, they can might as well lose anywhere from even in the 2024 general elections
Karan Dev
@Karan.Dev · 1:18
So we've covered a fair amount of detail and I just want to give you the chance to summarize and leave us with any message if you do have any or how you'd like people to view this particular election, because Prashant Kashur, the political consultant who founded IPAC, said in an interview that the BJP is here to stay and it's quite a Hegemonic party and it's here for the foreseeable future and there isn't likely to be any counter or alternative to it
Anurag Singh
@anuragsingh · 1:06
But if you look at a party, a party or an organization, that just a group of people of the present day and a lot of us, most of us who criticize or who call out BJP, we call out BJP for their sort of practice of the day. And that's what we wish to change in the entire or the larger discourse of Indian politics. I think that would be my sort of closing remarks on that