In the run up to the Uttar Pradesh elections, as battle lines are drawn between Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party's Akhilesh Yadav, who is Mulayam Singh Yadav's son, it remains to be seen which youth power will attract more votes.
The generation next is slugging it out with Rahul Gandhi taking the battle to Mulayam Singh's Yadav's stongholds in the central Uttar Pradesh. In a sharp incisive attack on both the Samajwadi Party and the BSP, the Congress General Secretary has been trying to reach out to the young voters born post the Mandal-Mandir era of the state politics.
Rahul Gandhi, in this leg of his UP campaign, is touring 19 Assembly segments. In a majority of those seats, the Congress has tactically fielded either local strongmen or SP turncoats who have their own support base in their respective constituencies.
Mulayam Singh's son Akhilesh Yadav has also been extensively touring the state for the last six months. He is now the face of the party's election campaign, trying to bring back the youth and the minority votes to the party fold.
"Rahul is a non issue in UP. He has had no impact so far," Mulayam Singh Yadav said.
The Congress has already stitched an alliance with Ajit Sigh's RLD in the western UP and has been aggressively poaching on some local, but prominent muslim faces in the SP, even as Mulayam Singh continues to extend support from outside to the the UPA
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