Mishra addressed three meetings in Allahabad on February 3, moving on to Varanasi and Chandauli. He is scheduled to also hold rallies at Mirzapur and later Bundelkhand, entering through Chitrakoot. However, at his Allahabad meetings, the participation was low.

Brahmin organisations are reluctant to align with the party as they did in 2007 despite Mishra’s speeches about BSP giving the community the most number of tickets in UP assembly polls. Apart from disenchantment with BSP, Mishra too attracts few voters. “What he said in meetings about the local candidate may be true. But his personality is not something we are enamoured with. He was not seen these five years and now he has come to talk about our interests,” said Pandit Raja Ram Shukla, general secretary of Kanyakubj Brahmin Sabha (Prayag).