Chief Minister Mayawati has already sent action plans to all the districts to maintain law and order following the judgment. Whatever might be the nature of the verdict, it will have deep impact on the state politics and influence the events leading to the assembly polls due in 2012. BSP leaders are firm in meeting the demands of the situation and the state government has urged the centre to send additional 490 companies of para-military forces to deal with post verdict situation. Chief Minister herself reviewed the law and order situation in the state at a meeting held in Lucknow attended by senior officials of the administration.

The BJP has already announced its programme to go ahead with the construction of the temple at Ayodhya irrespective of the nature of the verdict. The saffron brigade is set to implement the three month long Hanuman Shakti Jagran to whip up passions to coincide with the announcement of the verdict on the title suit pending for almost six decades. The plan includes recital of Hanuman Chalisa eleven times by the experts and temple construction pledge and signature campaign in support of the temple. A member of the organising committee informed that they would collect 11 crore signatures from three lakh villages all over the country.

Meanwhile, the BJP chief Surya Pratap Shahi has also indicated that he will participate in the ongoing sawan yatra in Ayodhya and have darshan of Ramlalla statues kept in make shift temple. While the Muslims in Ayodhya said that they would abide by the verdict but the VHP linked religious leaders said that they would honour the judgment only if it is in favour of the Hindu community.

On the other hand, the major political parties have also geared up to meet the challenges to be posed by the verdict. Samajwadi Party president and former chief minister of the state Mulayam Singh Yadav has already sought pardon from the muslim community for having joined hands with Kalyan Singh who is responsible for the demolition of the Babri Masjid as he failed to protect the mosque from the RSS kar sewaks on December 6, 1992 during his tenure as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh. The SP leader gave undertaking to the Muslim community that he will never join hands with the people associated with the demolition of the mosque.

Muslim community which has been supporting the SP leader since 1990 deserted his party once he joined hands with Kalyan Singh in the last Lok Sabha elections. This led to sharp decline in the number of SP seats in Lok Sabha. Now when Mulayam is again refurbishing his image among the Muslims, there has been some response from the community leaders but they want the SP leader to remain more active in articulating the long standing demands of the community. Muslim religious leaders Kalbe Jawad and Haroon Rasheed said that the SP leader should raise the issue of Rangnath Commission and Sachar Commission reports in Lok Sabha and mount pressure on the UPA government to give more advertisement support to the Urdu papers.

Congress is also gearing up to win over Muslim support. Realising anger in the Muslim community over the manner in which UPA government brought about enemy property ordinance, union minister for minority affairs Salman Khurshid met home minister P Chidambaram and saw to it that the interests of the genuine properties were restored. Congress leadership knows that the party got large number of seats in the last Lok Sabha elections due to the shift of muslim votes from the SP to the Congress and not due to the organisational strength of the Congress and all measures will have to be taken by the party to maintain this shift so that the SP can not make a turnaround after the verdict is announced. Congress also held meeting in different of the state to publicise the measures taken by the UPA government in the interests of the minorities

As regards BSP, chief minister Mayawati is most alert in protecting the interests of the Muslims since they have stood by her in both assembly and Lok Sabha elections. She has made her cabinet minister Nasimuddin Siddiqui in charge of the entire operation to win over Muslim votes in 2012 assembly elections. Siddiqui is working on it and the strategy is to field more Muslims as candidates in the next assembly elections. In 2007 elections, 31 Muslim candidates from BSP got elected to the state assembly and this was the largest number of Muslim legislators in UP assembly from any political party.(IPA Service)