LUCKNOW: The estrangement between BJP and its key best friend in UP, Apna Dal (Sonelal) greater further on Friday when the latter announced that it used to be preparing to contest around 10 Lok Sabha seats in UP, including Varanasi — the seat represented by PM Narendra Modi — in 2019. The announcement comes simply ahead of PM Modi’s seek advice from to Varanasi and Ghazipur on Saturday.
Apna Dal (S) leader Ashish Singh Patel said the birthday party has grown since 2014 and aims to contest more seats. “We have already started the bottom paintings in about 10 seats, including Varanasi,” Singh told TOI.
In 2014, the birthday party had contested two seats, Mirzapur and Pratapgarh, in a pre-poll alliance with BJP and its applicants, birthday party convener Anupriya Patel and Kunwar Harivansh Singh, won.
The birthday party now additionally wants to contest Phulpur, which BJP lost to Samajwadi Party in byelections after it used to be vacated by deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya since the constituency has a substantial inhabitants of its key votebank, Kurmis.
AD (S) may be eyeing Domariyaganj, represented by Congress turncoat Jagdambika Pal, who had switched to BJP simply earlier than 2014 elections. Domariyaganj falls in Siddharthnagar district, around 100 km from Gorakhpur, the political yard of UP CM Yogi Adityanath.
While BJP is keeping a national conference in New Delhi on January 11-12 to formalize its strategy, Apna Dal has convened a state-level assembly of birthday party staff in Bahraich earlier on January 7 to take a choice on the factor.
“For the time being, now we have determined not to attend any function of NDA government. Let issues work out first. It is a wait and watch situation,” said Patel.
Apna Dal (S) leader Ashish Singh Patel said the birthday party has grown since 2014 and aims to contest more seats. “We have already started the bottom paintings in about 10 seats, including Varanasi,” Singh told TOI.
In 2014, the birthday party had contested two seats, Mirzapur and Pratapgarh, in a pre-poll alliance with BJP and its applicants, birthday party convener Anupriya Patel and Kunwar Harivansh Singh, won.
The birthday party now additionally wants to contest Phulpur, which BJP lost to Samajwadi Party in byelections after it used to be vacated by deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya since the constituency has a substantial inhabitants of its key votebank, Kurmis.
AD (S) may be eyeing Domariyaganj, represented by Congress turncoat Jagdambika Pal, who had switched to BJP simply earlier than 2014 elections. Domariyaganj falls in Siddharthnagar district, around 100 km from Gorakhpur, the political yard of UP CM Yogi Adityanath.
While BJP is keeping a national conference in New Delhi on January 11-12 to formalize its strategy, Apna Dal has convened a state-level assembly of birthday party staff in Bahraich earlier on January 7 to take a choice on the factor.
“For the time being, now we have determined not to attend any function of NDA government. Let issues work out first. It is a wait and watch situation,” said Patel.
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