Naqvi predicts setback for SP-Congress in UP elections

By: Abhinandan Mishra
Last Updated: May 17, 2026 03:36:09 IST

BJP leader targets opposition, pitches inclusive empowerment ahead of 2027 polls.

Senior BJP leader and former Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi launched a sharp attack on the Congress and the Samajwadi Party, accusing opposition parties of being trapped in “feudal arrogance”, “communal appeasement” and “dynastic politics”, while asserting that the BJP’s model of “inclusive empowerment” had fundamentally altered the country’s political landscape.

Addressing the inaugural session of the BJP’s two-day “Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Prashikshan Mahaabhiyan” training programme in Uttar Pradesh’s Hapur, Naqvi claimed that the opposition had been “torn apart in its own trap of treacherousness” following recent electoral setbacks.

He said the BJP’s organisational strength, combined with the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had transformed the party into a “global brand of good governance and inclusive empowerment”.

“The strength of party workers and result-oriented leadership has established the BJP as a global hero of ground zero,” Naqvi said, while alleging that the “anti-BJP cartel” had failed to counter the party’s growing national acceptance.

Positioning the BJP’s politics as an alternative to caste and communal mobilisation, Naqvi said the country had moved beyond “communal appeasement” towards what he described as a new era of “inclusive empowerment”.

He accused opposition parties of undermining constitutional institutions and democratic mandates through what he termed “hit-and-run rhetoric” and “malicious propaganda”, and said leaders who viewed political power as a “feudal entitlement” continued to face repeated rejection by voters.

In one of his sharpest attacks, Naqvi described the Congress as a “laboratory of losers” and said dynasty-driven parties were reducing themselves to “feudal without fiefdom and landlord without land”.

Referring to the political situation in Uttar Pradesh, he claimed that the Congress and Samajwadi Party alliance would face another defeat in the 2027 Assembly elections.

Without naming specific leaders, he mocked the opposition alliance as a coalition of “Samajwadi Tipu and Samanti Sultan” and said it would fail to secure public support.

Naqvi urged BJP workers to begin detailed booth-level preparations for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, saying organisational strengthening from the polling booth to the “Shakti Kendra” level would be critical.

He asserted that the Modi government at the Centre and the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh represented guarantees of “inclusive empowerment, security and dignity” for all sections of society. The former Union minister also linked the BJP’s political expansion to what he called “Bharat’s empowerment”, arguing that the party’s governance model had enabled stability, welfare delivery and a stronger global position for India.

Speaking about the global economic situation, Naqvi said the world was passing through a period of financial instability and recessionary pressures affecting several major economies.

He claimed the Modi government had handled the crisis with “prudence and sensitivity” and appealed to citizens to maintain trust and social stability instead of “fear and confusion”.

The BJP’s ongoing two-day training programme in Hapur includes sessions on organisational expansion, election management, booth strategy, social media operations, media management, cadre development, national political narratives and welfare schemes of the Modi government.

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