AMBEDKAR NAGAR: In Ambedkar Nagar, considered the bastion of the Bahujan Samaj Party, 3 of Mayawati's lieutenants did dangle the citadel although the celebration publish its worst performance with simply 19 seats in assembly elections in 2017.
The state BSP president, Ram Achal Rajbhar, gained from Akbarpur, Lal Ji Verma from the adjoining Katehari and Ritesh Pandey from Jalalpur. "We will be the party in direct fight with the BJP in the 2019 general polls. People have realised that we are the only party that can defeat the BJP, not the Samajwadi Party (SP)," Verma advised ET, visibly upbeat after the hot civic polls through which BSP for the first time gained two mayoral seats, in Aligarh and Meerut, and got here a close 2nd in Saharanpur. Ask Verma if Muslims are returning to the BSP's fold, when they apparently selected the SPCongress alliance within the assembly elections, Verma says "this is apparent to everyone from the civic election results." He claims BSP will be the celebration with the largest tally from UP within the 2019 polls as individuals are "disillusioned" each with the BJP and SP. "People in UP are already missing the strict law and order scenario under our leader Mayawati," Verma added.
BJP dismisses talk that BSP will publish a performance that can concern them, pointing that BSP scored a blank within the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. But BJP's leaders do recognize the move of Muslims in opposition to BSP which can add to latter's base of Jatav-Dalit electorate. "Muslims vote for the party that is strong enough to beat BJP. In 2017 assembly polls, Muslims voted in initial phases (Western UP) for SP-Congress alliance but in later phases (Eastern UP) shifted to BSP realising the alliance was failing. But it was too late by then," a senior BJP chief mentioned, talking at the situation of anonymity. The BSP is expected to focus on Muslim-dominated seats in Western and Eastern UP now on, the latter especially the Azamgarh-Mau belt the place BSP entered into an alliance with Mukhtar Ansari's celebration within the 2017 polls. "Mulayam Singh Yadav may not fight from Azamgarh in 2019. BSP will be focusing here to make big gains," a BSP chief mentioned, on situation of anonymity.
The street for BSP would possibly, on the other hand, not be simple. In the hot civil polls, BJP gained the Akbarpur Nagar Palika which is BSP stronghold, after BJP had gained the Ambedkar Nagar Lok Sabha seat in 2014. "The way Mayawati has appointed her own brother as a top office-bearer in the party has not gone down well among the BSP cadre," BJP spokesperson Chandra Mohan mentioned. Both the UP deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya and BJP state president MN Pandey have earlier blamed the Aligarh and Meerut losses to "certain equations" on these seats, alluding to the Muslim population voting for the BSP.
The state BSP president, Ram Achal Rajbhar, gained from Akbarpur, Lal Ji Verma from the adjoining Katehari and Ritesh Pandey from Jalalpur. "We will be the party in direct fight with the BJP in the 2019 general polls. People have realised that we are the only party that can defeat the BJP, not the Samajwadi Party (SP)," Verma advised ET, visibly upbeat after the hot civic polls through which BSP for the first time gained two mayoral seats, in Aligarh and Meerut, and got here a close 2nd in Saharanpur. Ask Verma if Muslims are returning to the BSP's fold, when they apparently selected the SPCongress alliance within the assembly elections, Verma says "this is apparent to everyone from the civic election results." He claims BSP will be the celebration with the largest tally from UP within the 2019 polls as individuals are "disillusioned" each with the BJP and SP. "People in UP are already missing the strict law and order scenario under our leader Mayawati," Verma added.
BJP dismisses talk that BSP will publish a performance that can concern them, pointing that BSP scored a blank within the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. But BJP's leaders do recognize the move of Muslims in opposition to BSP which can add to latter's base of Jatav-Dalit electorate. "Muslims vote for the party that is strong enough to beat BJP. In 2017 assembly polls, Muslims voted in initial phases (Western UP) for SP-Congress alliance but in later phases (Eastern UP) shifted to BSP realising the alliance was failing. But it was too late by then," a senior BJP chief mentioned, talking at the situation of anonymity. The BSP is expected to focus on Muslim-dominated seats in Western and Eastern UP now on, the latter especially the Azamgarh-Mau belt the place BSP entered into an alliance with Mukhtar Ansari's celebration within the 2017 polls. "Mulayam Singh Yadav may not fight from Azamgarh in 2019. BSP will be focusing here to make big gains," a BSP chief mentioned, on situation of anonymity.
The street for BSP would possibly, on the other hand, not be simple. In the hot civil polls, BJP gained the Akbarpur Nagar Palika which is BSP stronghold, after BJP had gained the Ambedkar Nagar Lok Sabha seat in 2014. "The way Mayawati has appointed her own brother as a top office-bearer in the party has not gone down well among the BSP cadre," BJP spokesperson Chandra Mohan mentioned. Both the UP deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya and BJP state president MN Pandey have earlier blamed the Aligarh and Meerut losses to "certain equations" on these seats, alluding to the Muslim population voting for the BSP.
'No person here disputes Muslim preference for BSP'
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