Key Points
Akhilesh Yadav's PDA isn't a public display of affection but stands for Pichda (backwards), Dalit (scheduled castes) and Alpasankhyak (minorities), and the Samajwadi Party chief sees "the era of PDA coming"...
However, in the recent Rajya Sabha polls in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, seven SP legislators cross-voted for the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP)...
The SP MLAs who cross-voted for the BJP were Rakesh Pandey, Vinod Chaturvedi and Manoj Pandey from the Brahmin community, while Rakesh Pratap Singh and Abhay Singh come from the dominant Thakur community of Uttar Pradesh...
Akhilesh Yadav's focus on the PDA (Pichda, Dalit and Alpasankhyak) and the attacks on Ramcharitmanas by Samajwadi Party leaders might not leave the upper caste leaders much scope of romance with the party...
Even as the Samajwadi Party looks likely to have alienated the upper castes, the BJP took care to make up for the Brahmins with its recent picks in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan...
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