Chandrashekhar Azad's tribute to Chaudhary Charan Singh, is this a well thought out strategy?

Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Azad recently paid tributes as a Dalit leader to Jat farmer grandfather and former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh on his birth anniversary.

Displaying a large picture of Charan Singh at the top and a smaller picture of himself at the bottom, in a tweet on his official letter head as Bhim Army chief, he wrote, "For a nation happiness and prosperity with village farms and barns.

Praising the former prime minister as a powerful voice for workers and farmers, a popular mass leader and a freedom fighter, Azad remembered him on his birth anniversary.

Chandrashekhar's community in western Uttar Pradesh, who are largely landless, consider Jats to be oppressors. On the other hand, there is Charanjit Singh, who did not allow Jagjivan Ram to become the PM when the Janata government was formed in 1977. But Chandrashekhar has tried to change this perception.

This could be a sign of new political winds blowing ahead of the UP state assembly elections and a change in social equations in western Uttar Pradesh over the decades. Leaders of Dalit political organizations are generally praised for their symbols like Babasaheb Ambedkar and Kanshi Ram.