A day after BJP retained the Gola Gokarannath Meeting seat in Uttar Pradesh by defeating Samajwadi Social gathering (SP) within the bipolar contest, Bahujan Samaj Social gathering (BSP) president Mayawati in a caustic tweet on Monday hit out on the SP for “failing to defeat the BJP” and questioned if the most important Opposition occasion within the state Meeting may pose a formidable problem to the ruling BJP within the upcoming by-elections in Mainpuri and Rampur.
Each the BSP and the Congress had stayed away from the bypoll in Gola Gokarannath, paving the best way for a straight contest between the BJP and the SP.
“Gola Gokarnnath Meeting by-election is in quite a lot of discussions. It’s extra so due to the SP’s defeat by 34,298 votes than the BJP’s victory. When the BSP largely doesn’t contest by-elections and was not within the fray right here too, what new excuse will the SP make for its defeat,” the BSP chief requested.
1. यूपी के खीरी का गोला गोकर्णनाथ विधानसभा उपचुनाव भाजपा की जीत से ज्यादा सपा की 34,298 वोटों से करारी हार के लिए काफी चर्चाओं में है। बीएसपी जब अधिकांशतः उपचुनाव नहीं लड़ती है और यहाँ भी चुनाव मैदान में नहीं थी, तो अब सपा अपनी इस हार के लिए कौन सा नया बहाना बनाएगी? 1/2
— Mayawati (@Mayawati) November 7, 2022
“Now, the by-elections to Mainpuri Lok Sabha and Rampur Meeting seats are scheduled subsequent month. Similar to in Azamgarh, the SP faces the problem of retaining these seats. It must be seen whether or not the SP will be capable of win these seats once more by defeating the BJP or will it’s proved once more that it isn’t capable of defeat the BJP,” Mayawati added.
In Azamgarh Lok Sabha bypoll, the SP did not retain the seat that was vacated by occasion chief Akhilesh Yadav. BJP’s Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirahua defeated SP candidate and Akhilesh’s cousin Dharmendra Yadav by simply 8,000 votes. BSP candidate Shah Alam alias Guddu Jamali polled 2.66 lakh votes and successfully ended Dharmendra Yadav’s possibilities.
The SP had then blamed BSP for making certain BJP’s victory. However Mayawati claimed the ballot outcomes “confirmed that solely the BSP has theoretical and floor energy to defeat the BJP” and the occasion would hold reaching out to Muslims “for a much-awaited political change within the state”.
Mayawati’s newest salvo on the SP is rooted on the identical line. By questioning SP’s “capability to tackle the BJP”, she is mainly sending a message to the minority group to recalibrate their assist for the SP.
The BSP, which dominated Uttar Pradesh a decade in the past, was decimated within the Meeting elections held earlier this yr – it gained just one seat within the 403-strong Meeting. Due to this fact, the BSP, which nonetheless has substantial voters amongst Dalits within the state, is eager so as to add Muslim votes to its kitty for its political revival.
Sources within the BSP, nonetheless, stated that Mayawati might not area candidates within the upcoming by-elections in Rampur Meeting and Mainpuri Lok Sabha seats. And there’s a political recreation plan behind it.
“Not contesting these upcoming bypolls is a well-planned transfer of our occasion president Mayawati. She needs to make these elections a straight struggle between the BJP and SP. If SP loses, then it would ship a message to the Muslim voters that the SP isn’t capable of defeat the BJP, and they need to shift their electoral allegiance to the BSP in the event that they need to take away the BJP from energy within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections,” a BSP functionary instructed The Indian Categorical.
Not way back, the BSP and SP stitched collectively an alliance for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Nevertheless, after the alliance did not cease the BJP from returning to energy within the nation, the 2 events fell out.
Within the Meeting elections held in March this yr, each the events fought individually. Whereas SP emerged as the most important opposition occasion, it did not cease the BJP’s juggernaut. SP chief Akhilesh and different leaders of his occasion have been accusing the BSP of serving to the BJP defeat them by dividing secular votes. The accusation grew to become shriller after the SP misplaced within the Azamgarh bypoll.
Now, the most important problem earlier than the SP is the upcoming by-elections in Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat and Rampur Meeting seat on December 5.
Mainpuri Lok Sabha fell vacant after the loss of life of SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav. Alternatively, Rampur Meeting seat fell vacant after the incumbent SP MLA Azam Khan was disqualified following his conviction in a hate speech case.
The SP has not gained a single bypoll for the reason that Meeting elections when it gained 111 seats.
“Within the newest tweets, Mayawati has written about doable SP’s win or defeat towards the BJP. She has not stated that SP or BJP each will lose towards any third political occasion. That signifies that she isn’t going to area candidates in each the upcoming bypolls,” a BSP chief stated.
Nevertheless, BSP spokesperson Dharamveer Chaudhary stated that no such resolution has been taken by the occasion. “There’s sufficient time to take a choice whether or not to contest the bypoll or not. No matter resolution the occasion nationwide president (Mayawati) will take, that will probably be adopted by all the employees,” the spokesperson stated.