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  • Uttar Pradesh will witness democratic revolution in 2022: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav

    By PTI
    LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday asserted that there were will be a democratic revolution in Uttar Pradesh in 2022 against the current “disruptive” and “negative” politics. Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh are scheduled in 2022.

    आज की विघटनकारी-रूढ़िवादी नकारात्मक राजनीति सत्ता के विरुद्ध एकजुट शोषित, उपेक्षित, उत्पीड़ित, अपमानित दलित, दमित, वंचित, ग़रीब, किसान, मज़दूर, महिला व युवाओं की ‘नयी राजनीति’ जन्म ले रही है।2022 में उप्र में चुनाव नहीं लोकतांत्रिक क्रांति होगी। pic.twitter.com/44j5ajuQK2
    — Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) June 30, 2021

    In a tweet in Hindi, Yadav said, “United against today’s disruptive, conservative, negative politics, new politics of exploited, neglected, oppressed, humiliated, dalit, oppressed, deprived, poor, farmers, workers, women and youth is taking birth. In 2022, there will be no election in UP, there will be a democratic revolution.”

    The SP chief has exuded confidence that his party would win 350 seats out of the total 403 seats in the assembly, claiming people are against the BJP government.

  • Uttar Pradesh will witnessed democratic revolution in 2022: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav

    By PTI
    LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party supremo Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday asserted that there were will be a democratic revolution in Uttar Pradesh in 2022 against the current “disruptive” and “negative” politics. Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh are scheduled in 2022.

    आज की विघटनकारी-रूढ़िवादी नकारात्मक राजनीति सत्ता के विरुद्ध एकजुट शोषित, उपेक्षित, उत्पीड़ित, अपमानित दलित, दमित, वंचित, ग़रीब, किसान, मज़दूर, महिला व युवाओं की ‘नयी राजनीति’ जन्म ले रही है।2022 में उप्र में चुनाव नहीं लोकतांत्रिक क्रांति होगी। pic.twitter.com/44j5ajuQK2
    — Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) June 30, 2021

    In a tweet in Hindi, Yadav said, “United against today’s disruptive, conservative, negative politics, new politics of exploited, neglected, oppressed, humiliated, dalit, oppressed, deprived, poor, farmers, workers, women and youth is taking birth. In 2022, there will be no election in UP, there will be a democratic revolution.”

    The SP chief has exuded confidence that his party would win 350 seats out of the total 403 seats in the assembly, claiming people are against the BJP government.

  • No alliance with AIMIM for 2022 Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand assembly polls: Mayawati

    By Express News Service
    LUCKNOW: Completely ruling out the possibility of an alliance with Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati tweeted on Sunday that her party would go solo in the 2022 assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.

    Amid reports about the possibility of BSP aligning with the AIMIM in UP, just like it did in last year’s assembly polls in Bihar, the ex-UP chief minister tweeted about the decision to go solo in the UP and Uttarakhand Assembly polls slated early next year.

    In the 2020 assembly polls in Bihar, the BSP had contested in alliance with AIMIM and ex-union minister Upendra Kushwaha’s RLSP. While the AIMIM won a significant 5 seats (in Muslim dominated pockets Seemanchal region), the BSP’s lone seat came from Chainpur in Kaimur district. However, BSP’s lone MLA Mohd Jama Khan ditched the party after the results and joined the ruling JD(U) later and is now a minister in the Nitish Kumar-led JD(U)-BJP government.

    In her tweets on Sunday, Mayawati made it clear that her party has only announced an alliance in Punjab with the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD). In Punjab, the SAD will contest 97 seats, while BSP will field candidates on 20 seats. Importantly, Punjab, UP and Uttarakhand are among the five states where assembly polls will be held next year.

    Mayawati’s tweets came amid the district panchayat chairperson polls in UP, where inability of BSP to field its candidate in some districts, including Mau and Ghaziabad (despite having won more district panchayat members seats than BJP and SP) indirectly helped the BJP candidates win unopposed.

    This has fuelled rumours about possibility of BSP and BJP coming close together after the 2022 assembly polls in UP, in the event of a hung assembly.  

    As per political observers in UP, though the BSP supported candidates had not fared well in the recent panchayat polls in the state (where the panchayat polls since a decade and half have seen direct contest between SP and BSP backed candidates), the party still remains a considerable force in the state as its perhaps the only party having a committed base vote of scheduled caste voters.

    “It’s not the first time that Mayawati has announced going solo in the 2022 polls in UP, as on January 15 also she had made a similar announcement. By making it clear that she will fight the 2022 polls alone, the BSP supremo is attempting to ensure that the party’s base vote remains intact and doesn’t help some other political party in case of an alliance,” Varanasi based political journalist Ajay Rai maintained.

    In the 2017 UP Assembly polls, the BSP which had contested alone, finished a distant third behind the BJP and SP-Cong alliance, with just 19 seats and 22.23% vote share, which was 61 seats less and 3.68% lesser vote share than the party’s 2012 assembly polls tally.

    In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BSP had dumped its decade and a half enmity with the Samajwadi Party and contested the general elections in alliance with the Akhilesh Yadav-led party in the state. The party which had drawn a blank in the 2014 general elections in UP, emerged the biggest gainer with 10 seats, despite losing 0.34% vote, while its alliance partner SP held on to the five seats tally of 2014.

    After the 2019 LS polls, the honeymoon between the SP and BSP ended and recently the bitter rivalry between the two parties has reached its peak, particularly in the wake of reports about rebel BSP MLAs being in contact with SP leadership to contest the next assembly polls on SP tickets.

    The SP has made it clear that it won’t align with any mainstream political party in UP and is instead focusing on forging ties with smaller parties to dent the non-Yadav OBC and non-Jatav scheduled caste vote which was crucial in BJP sweeping the 2017 polls with historic 312 seats.

  • ‘Improved law and order, better farm returns will help Yogi’

    By Express News Service
    NEW DELHI: The BJP is hopeful that the performance of CM Yogi Adityanath on law and order front and measures for small and marginal farmers will help the party in the Assembly elections next year, UP minister Suresh Rana said on Thursday.

    “People are well aware of the law and order situation when the Samajwadi Party was in power. The state government led by Yogi Adityanath has ensured much improved law and order situations. The people in the state have a sense of security,” Rana told journalists through video conference.

    He also stated that the BJP government has ensured record payments to sugarcane farmers. He also said small and marginal farmers have benefited from a number of measures taken by the central and the state governments in the recent years. 

    Rana stressed that UP farmers unlike their counterparts in Punjab and Haryana have no issues with the central farm laws. “The procurements on MSPs have gone up along with the direct payment to the accounts of the farmers. This has contributed to the realisation of the remunerative prices for the farmers.” He claimed that the Yogi Adityanath government’s decisions have brought positive changes for sugarcane farmers and sugar industry in Uttar Pradesh.

    “Along with giving a new flight to the dying sugar industry, the state government has turned the tables around by setting a new record of payment to sugarcane farmers,” said Rana. “So far, the state government has made a record payment of `1,37,518 crore to more than 45.44 lakh sugarcane farmers. This is twice what the BSP government and one and a half times more than the SP government had done for the sugarcane farmers.”

  • Uttar Pradesh polls 2022: BJP’s booth level workers to have decisive role in candidates selection

    By Express News Service
    LUCKNOW: Booth level workers are likely play definitive role in selection of ruling BJP candidates for the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.

    According to sources in the saffron party’s state unit, the workers’ committees, which comprise of grassroot BJP workers, will have a decisive sway in selection of candidates in the next assembly polls which are just around nine months away.

    The first step of the exercise of candidates selection will happen in over next two months, when the performance reports of each individual sitting legislator will be prepared. The performance reports will be prepared based on the feedback about individual legislator’s performance from independent agencies, party organisation and most importantly booth level party workers.

    The booth level committees will also list the best alternative candidate in place of a non-performer sitting MLAs. Based on feedback about every legislator, the sitting MLAs will be graded as Excellent, Good and Average.

    Those, who will graded as Excellent will not only be fielded again by the party in 2022 polls, but also act as local star campaigners on seats of neighborhood. Those graded as good will also be repeated, but only stay confined to their individual seats, while those graded as average will be asked to perform in six months or perish,” a senior BJP organisation leader told The New Indian Express.

    According to informed sources, the idea to give more power to booth level party workers in candidate selection isn’t only aimed at their empowerment, but also to address the discontent prevailing among grassroot workers over the candidate selection in the recently concluded panchayat polls.

    Holding panchayat polls just 10-12 months before the assembly polls has divided the party workers on Ground Zero on caste and other lines. Rendering them more power in selecting candidates for 2022 polls is likely to address the discontent among them and motivate them to work together.

    Once the legislators are aware that booth level workers will have considerable clout in candidate selection, then they will work more closely with the party’s last possible workers in the coming months.

    In the 2017 assembly polls, the saffron party had returned to power after a decade and half with a monstrous 312 seats majority, but internal surveys ahead of next polls don’t paint a rosy picture for the ruling party in the next elections 

    The recent visits of party’s in-charge for the state Radha Mohan Singh and national organisation general secretary BL Santosh have marked the beginning of party’s organisation leaders from centre and master strategists spadework on ground in the politically crucial state.

  • UP Assembly polls: Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad stitches alliance with Bhagidari Sankalp Morcha

    By PTI
    LUCKNOW: Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad on Saturday met Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party president Om Prakash Rajbhar and agreed to contest the upcoming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh as part of the Bhagidari Sankalp Morcha.

    Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party general secretary Arun Rajbhar in a statement said their coalition will contest on all 403 seats in the state and the Bhim Army chief agreed to be part of it.

    We are trying to form the government in the state on issues of education, health, electricity and employment, he said.

    “In the 2022 assembly elections, we will form government in the state and give free education and power,” Arun Rajbhar said, adding that “whosoever wants to stop the BJP, they are welcome in the Morcha”.

    In December, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi announced his party’s intention to fight the next state elections in Uttar Pradesh as part of a front led by Om Prakash Rajbhar, a former BJP ally.

    “We are now part of Mr Rajbhar’s morcha,” he said after meeting the Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) chief here.