LUCKNOW : Uttar Pradesh ready for high-voltage demonstration between ruling party BJP and the Samajwadi Party on Saturday when top leaders of the two parties will storm each other’s strongholds ahead of the crucial assembly elections early next year.
While Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath The foundation of the university will reach Azamgarh, the parliamentary constituency of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, to flag off the third phase of the Samajwadi Vijay Yatra.
Experts said the development potentially marks the beginning of a fierce political struggle between the BJP and the SP, which are pitting themselves against each other. The high-decibel confrontation between the two parties has intensified after Akhilesh recently compared Muslim League leader and Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah to Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel. The BJP was quick to paint Akhilesh’s “Jinnah comment” as a “minority appeasement ploy”. BJP is also targeting the SP, recalling the firing on kar sevaks in Ayodhya in 1990, during the tenure of SP patriarch Mulayam. Singh Yadav,
Shah and Yogi’s scheduled visit to Azamgarh also becomes relevant as the BJP was unable to perform well in the district in 2017 despite the saffron wave. Of the 10 seats in the district, the BJP could only win the Phulpur Powai assembly seat, where its candidate Arun Yadav defeated BSP candidate Abul Kais by a margin of over 7,000 votes. Out of the remaining nine, four were occupied by the SP and five by the BSP.
Arun is the son of former SP MP Ramakant Yadav. Ramakant had joined the saffron party to contest the 2014 elections. Lok Sabha Elections from Azamgarh as a BJP candidate against SP Patron Mulayam Singh Yadav, but lost by a margin of over 73,000 votes. He later joined the Congress and contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Bhadohi. Yadav returned to the SP in October 2019 when the Congress expelled him on charges of “anti-party activities”.
BJP strategists claim that Shah’s visit to Azamgarh will boost the morale of party workers and prepare them for a high-profile electoral battle with regional satraps – SP and BSP. “The BJP regards Azamgarh as a major political and cultural centre, whose name was tarnished by the misdeeds of the previous SP and BSP regimes. The visits of senior leaders will definitely boost the cadre and help the BJP perform better as compared to the 2017 assembly polls,” said UP BJP spokesperson Rakesh Tripathi.
SP is also in the mood to soften with Akhilesh’s plan to take out Rath Yatra from Gorakhpur to Kushinagar. The bus, which doubles as a symbolic ‘rath’, has been decorated with portraits of Mulayam and Rampur MP Azam Khan and the party’s national general secretary. Ram Gopal Yadav,
It also has slogans like “Bad’s hand, youth with” and “Farmers, poor, women, youth, businessmen, everyone has a voice, we are socialists”.
While Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath The foundation of the university will reach Azamgarh, the parliamentary constituency of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, to flag off the third phase of the Samajwadi Vijay Yatra.
Experts said the development potentially marks the beginning of a fierce political struggle between the BJP and the SP, which are pitting themselves against each other. The high-decibel confrontation between the two parties has intensified after Akhilesh recently compared Muslim League leader and Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah to Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel. The BJP was quick to paint Akhilesh’s “Jinnah comment” as a “minority appeasement ploy”. BJP is also targeting the SP, recalling the firing on kar sevaks in Ayodhya in 1990, during the tenure of SP patriarch Mulayam. Singh Yadav,
Shah and Yogi’s scheduled visit to Azamgarh also becomes relevant as the BJP was unable to perform well in the district in 2017 despite the saffron wave. Of the 10 seats in the district, the BJP could only win the Phulpur Powai assembly seat, where its candidate Arun Yadav defeated BSP candidate Abul Kais by a margin of over 7,000 votes. Out of the remaining nine, four were occupied by the SP and five by the BSP.
Arun is the son of former SP MP Ramakant Yadav. Ramakant had joined the saffron party to contest the 2014 elections. Lok Sabha Elections from Azamgarh as a BJP candidate against SP Patron Mulayam Singh Yadav, but lost by a margin of over 73,000 votes. He later joined the Congress and contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Bhadohi. Yadav returned to the SP in October 2019 when the Congress expelled him on charges of “anti-party activities”.
BJP strategists claim that Shah’s visit to Azamgarh will boost the morale of party workers and prepare them for a high-profile electoral battle with regional satraps – SP and BSP. “The BJP regards Azamgarh as a major political and cultural centre, whose name was tarnished by the misdeeds of the previous SP and BSP regimes. The visits of senior leaders will definitely boost the cadre and help the BJP perform better as compared to the 2017 assembly polls,” said UP BJP spokesperson Rakesh Tripathi.
SP is also in the mood to soften with Akhilesh’s plan to take out Rath Yatra from Gorakhpur to Kushinagar. The bus, which doubles as a symbolic ‘rath’, has been decorated with portraits of Mulayam and Rampur MP Azam Khan and the party’s national general secretary. Ram Gopal Yadav,
It also has slogans like “Bad’s hand, youth with” and “Farmers, poor, women, youth, businessmen, everyone has a voice, we are socialists”.
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