In a setback to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party ahead of the elections in Uttar Pradesh, party MLA from Khalilabad seat in Sant Kabir Nagar Digvijay Narayan Choubey alias Jai Choubey is expected to switch to the Samajwadi Party (SP). The Chaubey family is said to have a good hold in the field of education in Sant Kabir Nagar district.
Besides Choubey, another prominent Brahmin leader from Purvanchal, former cabinet minister Harishankar Tiwari along with his son and BSP MLA Vinay Tiwari is also expected to join the SP. Tiwari is an MLA from Chilupar assembly seat of Gorakhpur.
Meanwhile, former MP from Sant Kabir Nagar Bhishma Shankar alias Kushal Tiwari is also likely to join Akhilesh Yadav’s party on Sunday. The move of Brahmin leaders to the SP is being seen as a big boost for Akhilesh Yadav’s party in the Purvanchal region.
A press conference has been called at the Samajwadi Party headquarters in Lucknow on Sunday and it is expected that both the leaders will officially join the Samajwadi Party in the presence of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav.
Earlier this year, Sigbatullah Ansari, brother of jailed mafia don Mukhtar Ansari, had joined the Samajwadi Party from the BSP. It is said that the Ansari family has a good hold in Mau and surrounding districts.
Instead of going with big parties, Samajwadi Party is tying up with smaller and regional parties for the 2022 UP elections. The SP had forged an alliance with the Congress in 2017 for the UP assembly elections and with the BSP for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, though none of them worked out the party’s expectations.
SP chief and former CM of the state Akhilesh Yadav Meanwhile, addressing a press conference in Lucknow on Saturday, he said, “Uttar Pradesh now wants change and SP will form the government in the state in 2022 with smaller parties.”
On the issue of PM Modi’s jibe at taking credit for development projects, Akhilesh Yadav said, “The scissor has come from Lucknow while the ribbon has come from Delhi. BJP cannot deny that any work on the Saryu canal project from 2012 to 2017″ It did not happen. The SP government gave land for Gorakhpur AIIMS. A PIL was also filed by BJP people on this. Samajwadi Party government had given GDA land for AIIMS. BJP people don’t know how to work. , they only know how to cut the ribbon.”
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