<p>Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Chief Mayawati has started detailed profiling of Assembly constituencies to select winnable candidates for Uttar Pradesh polls, due early next year.</p>.<p>While the Samajwadi Party (SP) has already positioned itself as the main challenger to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the latter is nibbling away at BSP's Dalit-MBC vote base.</p>.<p>Moreover, the BSP has lost a majority of its legislators to SP and a chunk of leaders have been expelled for unknown reasons by the party chief.</p>.<p>Mayawati is now working to look for candidates who can win the elections and, more importantly, remain loyal to the party.</p>.<p><strong>Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/national-politics/advantage-bjp-as-mayawati-to-go-solo-in-uttar-pradesh-polls-1049045.html" target="_blank">Advantage BJP as Mayawati to go solo in UP polls</a></strong></p>.<p>"The party will focus on the loyalty factor because our legislators should not be vulnerable, in case the Assembly results throw up a hung Assembly. Mayawati is checking and rechecking the credentials of candidates before finalising their names," said a senior party functionary.</p>.<p>The BSP has been most vulnerable to splits with its MLAs marching out of the party in every political crisis.</p>.<p>Mayawati has also asked party leaders to strengthen the party's organisational structure to counter the well-oiled machinery of BJP, which is backed by cadres of its ideological mentor RSS and its Hindutva arm, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP).</p>.<p>The aggressive entry of Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has only added to the concerns of the BSP.</p>.<p><strong>Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/north-and-central/bjp-sp-want-up-polls-to-be-hindu-muslim-affair-mayawati-1048975.html" target="_blank">BJP, SP want UP polls to be 'Hindu-Muslim affair: Mayawati</a></strong></p>.<p>Mayawati, sources said, wants to mobilise cadres that can help improve the party's vote percentage that has been on a decline since 2012 Assembly elections.</p>.<p>The party has put issues like farmers' stir against new farm laws, unemployment and poor law and order high on its agenda.</p>.<p>Mayawati has already whipped out a Brahmin card to replay her social engineering formula that propelled her to power with absolute majority for the first time in 2007 Assembly elections.</p>.<p>Mayawati also seeks to play 'soft Hindutva' to woo the upper caste, which has traditionally been voting in favour of the BJP.</p>.<p>She had set the idea rolling with MP and party's Brahmin face S.C. Mishra addressing 'Prabuddh Varg Sammelans' across the state to woo the upper caste.</p>.<p>The move, party sources said, may essentially help in 80 reserved seats, where BSP has not been performing well in the past.</p>
<p>Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) Chief Mayawati has started detailed profiling of Assembly constituencies to select winnable candidates for Uttar Pradesh polls, due early next year.</p>.<p>While the Samajwadi Party (SP) has already positioned itself as the main challenger to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the latter is nibbling away at BSP's Dalit-MBC vote base.</p>.<p>Moreover, the BSP has lost a majority of its legislators to SP and a chunk of leaders have been expelled for unknown reasons by the party chief.</p>.<p>Mayawati is now working to look for candidates who can win the elections and, more importantly, remain loyal to the party.</p>.<p><strong>Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/national-politics/advantage-bjp-as-mayawati-to-go-solo-in-uttar-pradesh-polls-1049045.html" target="_blank">Advantage BJP as Mayawati to go solo in UP polls</a></strong></p>.<p>"The party will focus on the loyalty factor because our legislators should not be vulnerable, in case the Assembly results throw up a hung Assembly. Mayawati is checking and rechecking the credentials of candidates before finalising their names," said a senior party functionary.</p>.<p>The BSP has been most vulnerable to splits with its MLAs marching out of the party in every political crisis.</p>.<p>Mayawati has also asked party leaders to strengthen the party's organisational structure to counter the well-oiled machinery of BJP, which is backed by cadres of its ideological mentor RSS and its Hindutva arm, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP).</p>.<p>The aggressive entry of Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has only added to the concerns of the BSP.</p>.<p><strong>Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/north-and-central/bjp-sp-want-up-polls-to-be-hindu-muslim-affair-mayawati-1048975.html" target="_blank">BJP, SP want UP polls to be 'Hindu-Muslim affair: Mayawati</a></strong></p>.<p>Mayawati, sources said, wants to mobilise cadres that can help improve the party's vote percentage that has been on a decline since 2012 Assembly elections.</p>.<p>The party has put issues like farmers' stir against new farm laws, unemployment and poor law and order high on its agenda.</p>.<p>Mayawati has already whipped out a Brahmin card to replay her social engineering formula that propelled her to power with absolute majority for the first time in 2007 Assembly elections.</p>.<p>Mayawati also seeks to play 'soft Hindutva' to woo the upper caste, which has traditionally been voting in favour of the BJP.</p>.<p>She had set the idea rolling with MP and party's Brahmin face S.C. Mishra addressing 'Prabuddh Varg Sammelans' across the state to woo the upper caste.</p>.<p>The move, party sources said, may essentially help in 80 reserved seats, where BSP has not been performing well in the past.</p>