Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati will begin her party's election campaign with four rallies aimed at consolidating its core vote bank, Dalits, ahead of the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, reported The Indian Express. The party has planned rallies in the eastern and western part of the state over the next two months.

The first ‘Sarvajan Hitay, Sarvajan Sukhay’ rally will be held in Agra on August 21, followed by one in Azamgarh on August 28. The main Opposition leader in the state will address the public in Allahabad on September 4, and in Saharanpur on September 11, reported Economic Times. The party has divided the state into four zones for electoral management, and the rallies have been planned keeping this in mind.

According to Naresh Gautam, the party's zonal coordinator in the BSP bastion of Saharanpur, the Dalit leader's rallies will attract more people than Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally did in the region. He said the Bharatiya Janata Party got people from Uttarakhand, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh for the rally, while the BSP's rally will be swelling with locals from the neighbouring districts. The former chief minister will also hold a rally in Bundelkhand soon. The region has been demarcated as the fifth zone by the party.