Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh): With only two days left for campaigning before the by-elections to be held in two assembly and one Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Samajwadi Party are intensifying their attacks on each other amid changing political equations ahead of the by-elections. Huh. In the Mainpuri Lok Sabha bypoll, experts claim that the core vote bank of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) could decide the result. Notably, more than 1.25 lakh votes belong to the Jatav community and more than 70,000 votes from different castes including Katheria will play a significant role in this crucial bypoll.
According to experts, since Mayawati’s BSP did not participate in the bypolls, party supporters have the option of voting for other candidates, and in such a situation, both SP and BJP have the freedom to make a dent in the core vote bank. Of BSP. In previous elections also the vote bank of BSP has been a major factor in the final election results.
Political observers told ANI, “This is the Lok Sabha constituency where Mayawati’s BSP vote bank will decide who will become an MP in the battle between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Samajwadi Party (SP).” 1.25 lakh votes belong to Jatav community and more than seventy thousand votes belong to various castes including Katheria.”
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After the demise of SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav, representative of the Lok Sabha constituency, the party is getting a lot of sympathy. Mainpuri has been a stronghold of the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the party has fielded Dimple Yadav, wife of party president Akhilesh Yadav, for the upcoming elections.
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Shivpal Singh Yadav, younger brother of late Mulayam Singh Yadav, addressed an election rally in support of SP candidate Dimple Yadav in Jaswantnagar assembly constituency before the elections.
Mainpuri is a bastion of SP, BJP running the government in the state and center is campaigning fiercely for the Lok Sabha seat. Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya participated in the campaign of party candidate Raghuraj Shakya in Mainpuri Lok Sabha by-election during a road show in Barnahal town.
Deputy CM Keshav Prasad, while targeting Akhilesh Yadav and his uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav, said that both are in panic due to fear of defeat, I do not want to answer the abuses of Akhilesh Yadav and Shivpal, I have abused Singh, neither have I ever Will give, because my values are not like this.
Maurya further said, “Akhilesh Yadav and his uncle are in panic for fear of defeat. The people of Rampur are defeating Azam Khan and the people of Mainpuri are defeating Dimple Yadav by making Raghuraj Shakya win. People are working towards the path of development and to end hooliganism in Mainpuri.”
BJP and Samajwadi Party intensify attacks on each other
Criticizing the previous SP government, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that under the Akhilesh government, farmers could not go to their land as their tube well connections were disconnected, machines were stolen and their throats were slit.
CM Yogi was quoted as saying by IANS, “Girls could not go to school and women to market due to security concerns. People were forced to migrate from places like Kairana and Kandala. People will never forget the brutality meted out to Sachin and Gaurav.” Can’t forget.” Two brothers killed during Muzaffarnagar riots during SP regime.”
Yogi urges people not to let Samajwadi Party’s “professional criminals” come under the spell of power, adding “Kawal Ka Bawal” (Muzaffarnagar) is SP’s curse.
On the contrary, Shivpal Yadav said that seeing the unity of the Samajwadi Party and the Yadav family, the BJP was becoming irritable. It is going to be the beginning of the end of BJP.”
(With ANI/IANS inputs)