LUCKNOW: BSP leader Mayawati has postponed her Azamgarh rally on October 18, presuming that it would possibly not draw a lot crowd due to Diwali celebrations planned through the Aditya Nath Yogi government in Ayodhya on the identical day.
After resigning from the Rajya Sabha on July 18 in protest in opposition to not being allowed to speak on Dalit atrocities, Mayawati had announced that she would cling rallies in divisional headquarters of Uttar Pradesh on the 18th day of each month. The first rally was held in Meerut on September 18.
BSP state president Ram Achal Rajbhar instructed TOI on Wednesday, "We don't want to disturb party workers during the festive season. So we changed the Azamgarh rally date on October 24. Dates of her rallies in the coming months would remain unchanged."
Mayawati will deal with rallies in Kanpur on December 18 , in Aligarh on February 18 subsequent 12 months, in Faizabad on March 18 and in Lucknow on May 18.
The UP government has announced Diwali celebration on the banks of Saryu river in Ayodhya on October 18. Yogi, UP governor Ram Naik and senior ministers shall be provide at the temple town where distinguished constructions alongside the Saryu Ghat shall be decorated.
Sources mentioned the BSP management was aware that the BJP's Diwali celebration in Ayodhya would draw giant crowd not handiest from Faizabad but additionally from the neighbouring district of Azamgarh.
The rally, as in step with the BSP agenda, planned to draw birthday celebration supporters in massive numbers from not handiest Azamgarh but additionally PM Narendra Modi's parliamentary constituency Varanasi and Yogi's former parliamentary constituency Gorakhpur.
Azamgarh is politically important for the BSP because the district contributed four out of 19 seats Mayawati's birthday celebration won within the 2017 assembly elections. In comparison, the BJP, which got an vast majority of 325 seats in UP assembly, won only one seat from the district.
The district may be crucial for Mayawati on her caste configuration—it has a sizeable inhabitants of dalits and Most Backward Castes, the 2 key vote banks of the BSP. Azamgarh has an important Muslim inhabitants, which she may search to consolidate ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
After resigning from the Rajya Sabha on July 18 in protest in opposition to not being allowed to speak on Dalit atrocities, Mayawati had announced that she would cling rallies in divisional headquarters of Uttar Pradesh on the 18th day of each month. The first rally was held in Meerut on September 18.
BSP state president Ram Achal Rajbhar instructed TOI on Wednesday, "We don't want to disturb party workers during the festive season. So we changed the Azamgarh rally date on October 24. Dates of her rallies in the coming months would remain unchanged."
Mayawati will deal with rallies in Kanpur on December 18 , in Aligarh on February 18 subsequent 12 months, in Faizabad on March 18 and in Lucknow on May 18.
The UP government has announced Diwali celebration on the banks of Saryu river in Ayodhya on October 18. Yogi, UP governor Ram Naik and senior ministers shall be provide at the temple town where distinguished constructions alongside the Saryu Ghat shall be decorated.
Sources mentioned the BSP management was aware that the BJP's Diwali celebration in Ayodhya would draw giant crowd not handiest from Faizabad but additionally from the neighbouring district of Azamgarh.
The rally, as in step with the BSP agenda, planned to draw birthday celebration supporters in massive numbers from not handiest Azamgarh but additionally PM Narendra Modi's parliamentary constituency Varanasi and Yogi's former parliamentary constituency Gorakhpur.
Azamgarh is politically important for the BSP because the district contributed four out of 19 seats Mayawati's birthday celebration won within the 2017 assembly elections. In comparison, the BJP, which got an vast majority of 325 seats in UP assembly, won only one seat from the district.
The district may be crucial for Mayawati on her caste configuration—it has a sizeable inhabitants of dalits and Most Backward Castes, the 2 key vote banks of the BSP. Azamgarh has an important Muslim inhabitants, which she may search to consolidate ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Mayawati shifts Azamgarh rally date to Oct 24
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