Through PTI
LUCKNOW: The ruling BJP may face a harder struggle at the 55 seats that can cross to polls in the second one segment of the Uttar Pradesh Meeting election in comparison to the primary spherical for the reason that area has a prime focus of Muslims, influenced via the non secular leaders of the Barelvi and Deoband sects.
The polling in the second one segment of the Uttar Pradesh Meeting election might be hung on February 14 and a notification for a similar might be issued on January 21.
Each the vital seats of the Barelvi and Deobandi sects — Bareilly and Saharanpur respectively — will cross to polls on this segment.
The 55 Meeting segments of the western districts of the state — Saharanpur, Bijnor, Amroha, Sambhal, Moradabad, Rampur — and of the Rohilkhand area’s Bareilly, Budaun and Shahjahanpur districts will cross to polls in the second one segment.
Of the 55 seats, the BJP had received 38 in 2017, whilst the primary opposition Samajwadi Birthday party (SP) bagged 15 and the Congress two.
The SP and the Congress contested the ultimate Meeting election in an alliance.
Of the 15 seats received via the SP, Muslim applicants emerged victorious in 10.
Of the 58 seats that can cross to polls within the first segment, the BJP had received 53, the SP and the Bahujan Samaj Birthday party (BSP) were given two each and every and the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) bagged one.
Maulana Tauqir Raza Khan, the president of the Ittehad-e-Millat Council (IMC) and the non secular guru of Barelvi Muslims, has introduced his reinforce to the Congress applicants within the 5 poll-bound states, together with Uttar Pradesh and Punjab.
Retaining in thoughts the huge Muslim inhabitants, All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Asaduddin Owaisi has additionally fielded applicants in probably the most seats within the area.
Uttar Pradesh BJP vp and MLC Vijay Bahadur Pathak advised PTI that his birthday party will win extra seats than ahead of in the second one segment too as a result of “ever for the reason that BJP executive used to be shaped on the Centre and within the state, all sections of the society have evolved and that is obviously felt via all”.
“The aggrieved public won’t give a possibility to events just like the Congress that headed the federal government for lengthy, or the SP and the BSP, which were in energy within the state often for 15 years, right through which loot and corruption persevered unabated,” he mentioned.
SP leader Akhilesh Yadav had shaped alliances with each the Congress and the BSP for various elections and folks have taught him a lesson, Pathak mentioned.
The SP had shaped an alliance with the Congress within the 2017 Meeting polls and with the BSP and the RLD within the 2019 Lok Sabha election.
In each the elections, the politics of the alliance labored as in comparison to that of the BJP’s on this area.
However this time, with the SP, the BSP and the Congress going it on my own, critics declare that there might be a cut up of votes and the BJP can take pleasure in it.
The BSP has fielded Muslim applicants within the space and a cut up of the Dalit and Muslim votes could also be anticipated.
The Mayawati-led birthday party has grow to be lively and except for its MPs, its nationwide basic secretary Satish Chandra Mishra has additionally toured this area widely.
Within the 2017 Meeting polls, the SP-Congress alliance had received 17 seats within the space and within the Lok Sabha election, of the 11 seats, seven had long gone to the SP-BSP alliance with the BSP getting Saharanpur, Nagina, Bijnor and Amroha and the SP successful Moradabad, Sambhal and Rampur.
The method of an alliance of Muslim, Jat and Dalit electorate used to be a success on this area.
This time, the SP has shaped an alliance with the RLD and the Mahan Dal, which has affect a number of the electorate of western Uttar Pradesh, and each events are believed to carry really extensive sway over the Jat, Shakya, Saini, Kushwaha, Maurya and Koiri fraternities within the area.
Akhilesh Yadav and his uncle Shivpal Yadav have their very own affect within the Yadav neighborhood.
The SP could also be looking to capitalise at the factor of arrest of Rampur MP and previous minister Azam Khan, who has been within the Sitapur prison for almost two years now in land-grabbing and different felony instances.
Akhilesh Yadav has accused the BJP of implicating Khan in pretend instances.
SP’s nationwide secretary and leader spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary advised PTI that his birthday party’s alliance may be very robust within the spaces going to polls in the second one segment.
“BJP’s flooring has slipped from beneath its ft and its lies and fraud were uncovered. This time, the folks of Uttar Pradesh will ship the BJP on an exile,” he mentioned.
Some other SP chief identified that Swami Prasad Maurya and Dharam Singh Saini, who resigned as ministers lately and joined the SP, will upload power to the SP-RLD alliance and in conjunction with Keshav Dev Maurya of the Mahan Dal, they’re going to be sure that the BJP is “burnt up” from the area.
Swami Prasad Maurya’s daughter Sanghamitra Maurya is a BJP MP from Badaun.
The Congress has additionally got to work out equations to make stronger its flooring.
On Monday, Maulana Tauqir Raza Khan, the non secular guru of Barelvi Muslims, introduced his reinforce to the Congress applicants within the within the 5 poll-bound states.
He made the announcement at a joint press convention with state Congress leader Ajay Kumar Lallu.
Expressing his gratitude to Khan, Lallu mentioned within the coming days, the birthday party will shape the federal government in Uttar Pradesh.
