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LUCKNOW: Former Uttar Pradesh minister Swami Prasad Maurya, who had abandoned the BJP to sign up for the Samajwadi Celebration with two different ministers and round part a dozen sitting BJP MLAs closing month, has been given a price tag from Fazilnagar as an alternative of his conventional stronghold of Padrauna in Kushinagar. Fazilnagar is an meeting seat adjacent Padrauna which Maurya has been representing for 4 phrases since 2007.
Even after becoming a member of the BJP defecting from the BSP in 2016, Maurya had contested from Padrauna and is a sitting MLA from there. Now, in Fazilnagar, Maurya might be up towards the BJP’s Surendra Kushwaha, the son of incumbent BJP MLA Ganga Singh Kushwaha.
Maurya’s title used to be at the SP checklist of 3 applicants, comprising Abhishek Mishra from Lucknow’s Sarojini Nagar seat and Pallavi Patel from Sirathu in Kaushambi but even so Maurya. Pallavi Patel, the sister of Union minister and BJP best friend Anupriya Patel, will face deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya in Sirathu.
Since Maurya left the BJP, there used to be hypothesis that the ruling birthday celebration would box a powerful candidate to nook him in his pocket borough. Within the interim, senior Congress chief and the scion of Kushinagar royal circle of relatives RPN Singh joined the BJP. Padrauna has been the turf of RPN Singh as he has represented it in UP Meeting for 3 immediately phrases – 1996, 2002 and 2007.
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Political circles are abuzz with hypothesis that RPN Singh will contest from Padrauna at the BJP price tag. Within the Lok Sabha elections in 2009, he had defeated Maurya from Kushinagar parliamentary seat. The political competition between Maurya and RPN Singh has been occurring for somewhat lengthy.
As in line with resources, Maurya sought after to shift his constituency from Padrauna to Fazilnagar as he used to be sensing anti-incumbency towards him in his conventional constituency. Akhilesh Yadav obliged him purportedly pleasing the promise made to him when he switched facets from the BJP to the SP.
Alternatively, Maurya claimed that Fazilnagar can be a problem for him and that the tougher the problem used to be, the easier he felt. “I had mentioned that my employees settle for my reputation all over, so I welcome no matter has been determined for me by way of the birthday celebration’s nationwide president,” mentioned Maurya after the announcement on Wednesday. Alternatively, he refused to recognize any problem from RPN Singh announcing, “There’ll possibly be no candidate weaker than RPN Singh if the BJP fields him.”
In the meantime, of the 3 ministers who had left the Yogi govt to sign up for the SP closing month, two — Swami Prasad Maurya and Dara Singh Chauhan — have shifted to different constituencies leaving their strongholds as used to be promised to them by way of the SP management after they abandoned the BJP. Dara Singh Chauhan has shifted from Madhuban in Mau to Ghosi in the similar district.
Alternatively, the 3rd one Dharam Singh Saini sought after the price tag from his personal constituency Nakur and he has additionally been obliged denying a price tag to Congress strongman Imran Masood who additionally sought after to contest from the similar constituency. Saini and Masood were combating towards each and every different for somewhat a while in Nakur.
