Lok Sabha Elections 2024: India In states where alliances have been agreed, the challenge has been to bridge differences among local leaders and harmonize workers to transfer votes. Transferring their votes can prove to be a big challenge for alliance partners in states like Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. The alliance between Aam Aadmi Party and Congress in Delhi was opposed by the local unit of Congress, but the alliance was finalized. Apart from this, the joint rally held at Ramlila Maidan also sent a clear message to the workers of both the parties. However, the candidate's party has still not been able to formulate a strategy for coordination among local leaders and coordination at the booth level. In this way, due to confusion on many seats of Bihar, an agreement could not be reached. A leader said that if there is no coordination at the local level, it will be difficult to transfer votes.
SP leaders visited the district office of Congress
In this way, there is an alliance between Samajwadi Party and Congress in Uttar Pradesh also. But here too, considering the past bitter experience, the real challenge for Samajwadi Party and Congress will be to coordinate on the ground for campaigning in the Lok Sabha elections and transfer votes to each other. Local leaders say that no instructions have yet come from the high command on how the alliance will work on the ground. However, at some places, SP leaders have started efforts to make arrangements at the local level by visiting the district offices of Congress.
Confusion regarding division of work
Experts say that there is a lot of difficulty in transferring the votes of one party to another party. In this, along with the credibility of the leaders, familiarity with the environment and the land, the selection of the candidates also plays an important role. In 2017, there was an alliance between Samajwadi Party and Congress, but their local units maintained distance from each other, due to which this time the leaders are meeting each other to form an alliance in the Lok Sabha elections. However, the illusion of division of labor still persists.
BJP's vote share increased by eight percent
Political analysts say that if we look at Uttar Pradesh, during the last ten years, the votes of small parties are easily transferred to BJP in the Assembly or Lok Sabha elections. However, these votes could not be transferred in the Ghosi by-election. A comparison of vote share between the 2019 Lok Sabha and 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections shows that the BJP's vote share has increased by eight percent this year, while the vote share of the Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samajwadi Party and the Congress has decreased significantly. . , According to experts, vote transfer depends on many factors and there is no exact formula as to which factor will work on the ground.