Communal polarisation, hate speeches, love jihad, caste politics and performance card of Akhilesh Yadav government on the state and that of Modi government at the centre are being used to win these crucial elections as they would set the mood of the people for next assembly polls in 2017.

After debacle in Uttarakhand and Bihar, BJP under the leadership of national president Amit Shah is desperate to retain all its 10 assembly seats and one for alliance partner Apna Dal and capture Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat from SP.

Never before elections in Uttar Pradesh were contested in such communally charged atmosphere as this time when newspapers reports said that there had been more than 600 small and big incidents of communal violence in the state since Modi government was installed at the centre.

The manner in which BJP had made Gorakhpur MP Yogi Aditya Nath star campaigner for the elections , made it clear that it would capitalize by putting aggressive Hindutva as main agenda.This BJP MP has been giving hate speeches for weeks and there has been demand from the SP and the Congress to take action against him.

Despite protest from Samajwadi Party, Congress and BSP Yogi Adhitya Nath is going ahead with his deliberate hate speeches to incite minorities for polarization.Chief Electoral Officer of the state Umesh singh has warned the hard core BJP MP against giving communal speeches but he remains unconcerned.

Samajwadi Party has petitioned the Election Commission to impose ban on Union Minister Kalraj Mishra and Yogi Aditya Nath for making hate speeches which could disturb the communal harmony in the state.

BJP leaders are also using love jihad as an election issue to polarize voters on communal line. So much so controversial BJP MP Sangeet Som accused in Muzaffarnagar communal riots, has now given a call for holding mahapanchayat in his area on the issue of love jihad to influence Hindu voters in assembly by-polls.

SP leaders have also condemned the reported statement of BJP national president Amit Shah that if UP continued to reel under communal tension, then BJP would form government in 2017.

BJP is so keen to capture Mainpuri from SP that all star campaigners from Yogi Aditya Nath to Uma Bharti and Hema Malini are concentrating in the prestigious Lok Sabha seat considered to be the stronghold of Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Mulayam Singh Yadav is tremendous pressure because of massive mobilization of star campaigners by BJP in his area. He addressed several meetings in Mainpuri for his grand nephew Tej Pratap Singh Yadav. During last elections, Mulayam was so confident ot winning this seat that he had not campaigned at all. Mulayam would be visiting this constituency for second time as well and address in all assembly segments.

During his election meetings, the SP supremo said that even if his party won three seats out of 11 assemblies and one Lok Sabha seat, victory would be for his party.

Ever since BSP voters rejected the decision of BSP supremo Mayawati woo traditional voters of BSP.

While BJP is working on dalit voters in the name of samajik samrasta, Samajwadi Party is eying on Muslim and backward voters of BSP to consolidate its vote bank.

Although Congress has put candidates in all the assembly seats, but excepting Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat, the Party is nowhere in the fight as leadership as well as the workers have yet not recovered from humiliating defeat in Lok Sabha polls.

BJP has thanked the state election commission for accepting its demand for posting central forces in these crucial by-elections especially when the entire state is reeling under the communal tension very often leading to violence. (IPA Service)