As the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections are approaching, political change is now an everyday occurrence. However, in this election season, the Samajwadi Party seems to be taking its roots in the Purvanchal region. After jailed mafia brother Mukhtar Ansari Sigbatullah Ansari switched from BSP to SP earlier this year, powerful Brahmin leader Hari Shankar Tiwari from Purvanchal along with his son Vinay Shankar Tiwari switched to Samajwadi Party. Is. ,
According to highly placed sources, Hari Shankar Tiwari’s son Vinay, who is a BSP MLA from Chilupar assembly seat in Gorakhpur, recently met Akhilesh in Lucknow. Sources also revealed that the SP chief Akhilesh Yadav Spoke to Hari Shankar Tiwari over video call as the latter could not come in person due to health issues. Harishankar is considered a big name among Brahmin leaders of Purvanchal and with his family joining the SP fold, it will strengthen the roots of SP in Purvanchal ahead of the crucial 2022 UP elections.
Meanwhile, if Vinay Shankar Tiwari joins the SP, it will be the second blow to the BSP in Purvanchal after Shah Alam alias Guddugu Jamali left the party recently. Vinay Tiwari, son of former minister and Bahubali leader Harishankar Tiwari, who has a stronghold in Purvanchal, is a BSP MLA from Chillupar seat in Gorakhpur. If Tiwari leaves the BSP, it will also be seen as a setback for the BSP’s Brahmins’ reach for the 2022 UP elections.
Harishankar Tiwari, a former cabinet minister and influential leader of Brahmin politics in Purvanchal, is considered a big Brahmin face. In such a situation, if Harishankar Tiwari’s son Vinay Tiwari joins the SP, then the SP can get political advantage, especially in some seats in Purvanchal and surrounding areas. Harishankar Tiwari is considered to have a hold not only in Gorakhpur but in all the districts of Purvanchal.
It is a common belief in Purvanchal that powerful men like Mukhtar Ansari and Brajesh Singh followed in the footsteps of Harishankar Tiwari and entered the world of politics. The feud between Virendra Pratap Shahi and Pandit Harishankar Tiwari is famous in Purvanchal and it also fuels the Pandit vs Thakur caste supremacy war. In the 1980s, the battle for supremacy between Tiwari and Shahi took the color of Thakur versus Brahmin caste politics in the region.
Both Harishankar Tiwari and Virendra Shahi were residents of the same assembly constituency, Chilupar. In the by-election held in 1980, Virendra Pratap Shahi contested independently and won from Laxmipur assembly seat of Maharajganj. Again in 1985, Shahi won the election and proved his worth in politics. The empire of both Shahi and Tiwari was established on the equation of Brahmin versus Thakur. While in jail in 1985, Harishankar Tiwari contested and won from Chilupar assembly seat.
Pandit Harishankar Tiwari, who became invincible from Chilupar, lost in the years 2007 and 2012. In the year 2017, his younger son Vinay Shankar Tiwari reached the assembly on a BSP ticket. Harishankar Tiwari’s elder son Bhishma Shankar alias Kushal Tiwari has been a two-time MP from Sant Kabir Nagar. With the influential Tiwari family now joining the SP, it will certainly be a boost for the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party.
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