UTTAR PRADESH-Revival of Old Political Alignments

UTTAR PRADESH Revival of Old Political Alignments Amaresh Misra Just when the dalits appeared close to reaching out to power, the BSP has, through its alliance with the Congress, revived the very alignment which the dalits had sought to shed. On the other hand, the SP and the Janata Dal after the failure of the attempt to put together an anti-BJP front including the Congress, are reverting to the old oppositional grouping of the backward castes with the thakurs andjats.