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  • Dhanajay Singh, Brij Bhushan Saran Singh, Raja Bhaiya: BJP’s Thakur Vote Bank Looks Sorted Now |

    Ahead of the critical phases of the Uttar Pradesh elections, it seems that the BJP has managed to resolve its Thakur dilemma. The past month has been quite eventful where several events have unfolded. 

    Why BJP Needs The Support Of Thakurs? 

    Thakurs hold a strong hold in many constituencies in central and eastern UP, which vote in the upcoming fifth, sixth, and seventh phases. There has been an evident discontent among Thakurs in west UP, who felt sidelined by the BJP in ticket distribution. 

    Enacting on the same, BJP has now all the influential Thakur strongmen in its kitty. BJP has now commanded dominance in politics of the following regions. Their leaders include Brij Bhushan, whose influence extends to Gonda; Brijesh Singh in the Varanasi region; Raghuraj Pratap Singh, also known as ‘Raja Bhaiya’, in the Pratapgarh area; Dhananjay Singh of Jaunpur; and Abhay Singh of Ayodhya. While they all hail from east UP, their influence reaches beyond their respective areas.

    In order to emerge victorious the party made amends by nominating community leaders in key seats such as Kaiserganj, Rae Bareli, and Mainpuri. 

    Jaunpur Lok Sabha Seat 

    Dhananjay’s wife, Srikala Reddy, initially received the Jaunpur Lok Sabha ticket from the BSP, replacing the incumbent MP Shyam Singh Yadav.In an unexpected twist, she was later dropped as a candidate, and Yadav was reinstated. 

    Thereafter, Dhananjay declared his support for the BJP, and Srikala was seen in a photo with Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

    BJP leaders believe that these developments have essentially guaranteed the Jaunpur seat for their candidate, Kripa Shankar Singh. Dhananjay is known to wield influence over not only Thakurs but also OBCs in Jaunpur and the neighboring Machhlishahr constituency.

    Kaiserganj Lok Sabha Seat 

    In Kaiserganj, despite internal opposition, the BJP nominated the son of senior leader Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who had to be replaced due to allegations of sexual harassment by female wrestlers.

    Brij Bhushan is believed to have a significant influence among Thakurs and Kurmis in Gonda, Ayodhya, Barabanki, Basti, Balrampur, and Sidharth Nagar. 

    Rae Bareli And Mainpuri Lok Sabha Seat 

    Dinesh Pratap Singh and Jaiveer Singh are the BJP’s candidates in Rae Bareli and Mainpuri, respectively, running against leaders of the INDIA bloc, Rahul Gandhi and Dimple Yadav.

    With Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, a Thakur himself, there were whispers of him being overlooked in the ticket distribution in west UP, which have now subsided. Dinesh Singh is considered close to the CM.

    Varanasi Lok Sabha Seat

    Brijesh Singh, a mafia don based in Varanasi, has always been open about his allegiance to the BJP, and particularly to Adityanath. He has been out on bail since August 2022, after being acquitted in most of the 35 serious charges against him, including murder. He was arrested in 2008 by the Delhi Police.

    In 2016, Brijesh became an Independent MLC after the BJP did not field a candidate against him from Varanasi. In 2022, his wife Annapurna Singh won the same MLC seat in a surprise victory against a BJP candidate, sparking speculation about who supported her.

    Brijesh is believed to have influence among Thakurs and Bhumihars in Varanasi, Chandauli, Mirzapur, Ghazipur, Mau, Ballia, and also in some districts of Bihar and Jharkhand.

    Pratapgarh Lok Sabha Seat 

    ‘Raja Bhaiya’, who has consistently won the Kunda Assembly seat seven times, six of those as an Independent before establishing his own party in 2022, is thought to have the support of Adityanath. However, recently, Raja Bhaiya voiced his stance and said, “After a meeting with party leaders and workers, a decision has been taken that the party will not support any candidate in the Lok Sabha elections. Our voters and supporters may cast their votes as per their will.”

    In 2013, when Raja Bhaiya was a minister in the Samajwadi Party government led by Akhilesh Yadav and was charged with the murder of Deputy SP Zia-ul-Haq in Pratapgarh, Adityanath, then a BJP MP from Gorakhpur, deviated from the party line to declare that Raja Bhaiya had been wrongly accused. 

    Raja Bhaiya has served in the BJP governments of Kalyan Singh and Rajnath Singh, as well as the Samajwadi Party government of Mulayam Singh Yadav, in addition to the Akhilesh government. Earlier this year, he supported BJP candidates in the Rajya Sabha elections in UP.
    He is perceived as having sway among Thakurs and OBCs, including Yadavs and Kewats, in the districts of Pratapgarh and Kaushambi.

    What’s The Situation In Ayodhya?

    Abhay Singh, once a friend but now an adversary of Dhananjay, and the incumbent SP MLA from the Gosainganj constituency in Ayodhya, has also pledged his loyalty to the BJP. He voted for the BJP in this year’s Rajya Sabha elections. His father and wife joined the BJP last month.

    Abhay is known to be assisting the BJP in the constituencies of Ayodhya, Ambedkar Nagar, Barabanki, and Basti.

  • Editorial :- Har Chunaav Mein Elaayans Badalane Va Yoo Tarn Lene Mein Maahir Naidu Bane Ustaad Mahaagathabandhan Ke : Congress Sashankit

    In the face of Ram, in front of Ram, while churning a knife in every election, Chandra Babu Naidu, who has been in the process of changing the alliance and taking a U turn, has gone for a grand alliance with Congress for the year 2019. What will be the fate of this three trumpet race?
    Chandra Babu Naidu accompanied by Andhra Chief Minister BJP. Now they are calling the alliance of the opposition parties or alliances in the whole of India. In Andhra itself, they have not been able to form an alliance against the BJP. YRS and the figure of 36 between them.
    The same is the case of Telangana. Before Andhra, Chief Minister of Telangana Chandrashekhar Rao was doing the third round of exercise for 2019, it has become ti-ti fiss.
    In Telangana, Congress and Chandra Babu Naidu’s TDP are contesting against Chandrashekhar Rao’s party against TRS. This too is a big coalition spread against the BJP.
    People of undivided Andhra, i.e. the people of Telangana and divided Andhra, are well aware of how the sculptures of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi were thrown out by throwing hammer and thrown on the road.
    Naidu’s race happened after Mamta Banerjee’s court. Mamta Banerjee’s TMC and the hostility of the communist parties is well known. That is why Mamata Banerjee is frightened by the BJP’s growing influence. Regardless of whether the Congress and the Communist parties will come against the BJP along with Mamta.
    Naidu’s race started with Sharad Pawar and Farooq Abdullah to get the ambition of becoming the Prime Minister. So far, this race has not been able to reach Uttar Pradesh where the Lok Sabha has 80 seats.
    The statements of Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav are published in the first page of this issue of Lokshakti. Both the Congress and the BJP are making Nagnath one and the second as a snake nanatha, making the strategy of 2019. Apart from this, Raja Bhaiya also broke Akhilesh’s waist by making him a separate party.
    In 1996, Naidu did an important task to unite all the different parties in the secular front that Karnataka politician HD Deve Gowda is credited for reaching the Prime Minister’s post.
    Just two years after Naidu took a tremendous U-turn, along with right-wing ideology BJP, played an important role in forming the country’s first NDA government, due to which Atal Bihari Vajpayee became the Prime Minister.
    In 2004, when his party faced defeat in Andhra Pradesh and after that in the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, the NDA alliance was defeated, Naidu had lost the right to be a communal image of BJP and Gujarat riots. Not implemented.
    In Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, the Congress and Chandrababu Naidu’s Telugu Desam Party (TDP) are together. Both parties are contesting Telangana assembly elections. The next year, the Andhra Pradesh assembly and the Lok Sabha elections together have agreed between them. Even if the Economic Times quoted the sources quoted by sources, the Congress is not completely convinced about Chandrababu Naidu. Rather it is only a matter of concern. Especially in the Congress unit of Andhra Pradesh, Naidu is repeated.
    According to the newspaper, the concern of Congress is the hyperactivity of Chandrababu Naidu. Earlier he was convinced that Naidu might have come with the Congress and accepted his leadership in non-BJP coalition. But this perception seems shaky because Naidu is increasingly joining the Congress as well as with other parties. It has started to appear that they may also present their claims in parallel to the leadership of the Congress leadership to lead the opposition coalition.
    Chandrababu Nayudu is himself a self-appointed family member. The parties they are converging are also separatist-minded familyist parties who are eager to make the country crave for split power.
    The Karnataka Congress government had also introduced the format of Agal flag for Karnataka. Mamta Banerjee called the exercise of every year of the army in toll plaza in Calcutta as a coup also. Similarly, following the same Mamata Banerjee today, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Naidu has announced that he will not let the Constitutional independent body of India run the CBI. What is the separation of this kind of thinking, the power that divides the country into pieces, the extent to which the support of the public will be available to the loyalist families?