The Samajwadi Celebration (SP) faces a problem to avoid wasting its two citadels–Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat and Rampur meeting seat–from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP). The Akhilesh Yadav-led social gathering had failed in the same try in June when the saffron outfit snatched the Azamgarh and Rampur parliamentary seats from it.
Mainpuri and Rampur would go to bypolls on December 5.
Mainpuri fell vacant following the demise of Mulayam Singh Yadav and Rampur meeting seat due to the disqualification of its MLA Azam Khan following the three-year jail time period by the Rampur MP/MLA court docket in a 2019 hate speech case.
On each seats, the SP is prone to discipline members of the family. A Yadav in Mainpuri and a Khan in Rampur. On each seats, the SP has sympathy factors–the demise of political icon Mulayam and injustice by the hands of ruling BJP with Azam Khan, however the problem from the belligerent BJP is huge.
Each had been such impregnable fortresses of the SP that the BJP couldn’t win in Modi-BJP waves in each the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls and failed in Rampur in each the 2017 and 2022 UP meeting polls.
When requested whom the SP would discipline to retain the seats, nationwide secretary and state spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary mentioned: “The social gathering’s nationwide president will sit with the social gathering high leaders and determine. However regardless of whom the social gathering filed, it would win each the seats.”
The election fee introduced the elections on each seats on Saturday, however Tej Pratap Singh Yadav, the grandnephew of Mulayam and son-in-law of the Bihar former chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, has been doing the rounds within the social gathering circles because the day after Mulayam handed away on October 10.
Tej Pratap Singh Yadav, 34, had gained the identical seat in 2014 Lok Sabha bypolls (when Mulayam vacated it to retain Azamgarh) throughout the time when Akhilesh Yadav was the UP chief minister. When Mulayam contested and gained the Mainpuri seat in 2019, Tej Pratap was his election in-charge.
“The highway now in Mainpuri can be troublesome for the SP given the ruthlessness that the BJP is projecting to win the seat. The BJP is a united pressure, the Yadav household is split,” mentioned Sughar Singh, a neighborhood journalist in Saifai, Etawah.
Shivpal issue
The Pragatisheel Samajwadi Celebration-Lohia (PSP-L) chief Shivpal Yadav, about whom there had been speculations that he had been eager to venture himself as heir of his elder brother Mulayam Singh Yadav’s political legacy, has not been making his stance clear.
With the elections have been declared on the seat, the PSP-L camp had been sending complicated indicators, one which he won’t contest the seat himself and is on the lookout for the seat for his son and the PSP-L state president Aditya Yadav. One other signifies that for the household’s sake, he would assist Tej Pratap on the seat.
Regardless of the rift between Shivpal and Akhilesh, Tej and Shivpal have maintained their authentic relationship. Nonetheless, if Shivpal decides to participate within the elections towards the SP, then the SP’s activity would get harder.
Shivpal is the sitting MLA from the Jaswant Nagar meeting seat, a big a part of which is a part of the Mainpuri constituency. SP chief Akhilesh is the MLA from one other meeting section of Mainpuri–Karhal. Shivpal additionally has a major affect on the Mainpuri Sadar, Kishni and Bhogaon meeting segments.
Deepak Mishra, a PSP-L chief mentioned: “Shivpal ji had mentioned that the PSP-L’s parliamentary board will determine the social gathering’s course for the Mainpuri bypolls. One that is certain that no matter Shivpal ji will do was in sync and honour to Netaji’s (Mulayam’s) political legacy”.
Rampur’s scenario appears a bit clearer than Mainpuri’s. It’s doubtless that Azam would get his spouse Tazeen Fatma or his daughter-in-law, spouse of Suar MLA Abdullah Azam.
Tazeen had gained the seat as soon as in 2019 in bypolls when Azam had vacated it following his victory on the Rampur LS seat. Tazeen, 73, although will not be preserving effectively. The SP had concluded that the social gathering suffered the loss within the Rampur bypolls by not fielding anybody from the Azam household.
“Let’s see whom Azam Khan selects to contest the Rampur seat. He has an enormous household and in addition Rampur is his household,” mentioned Virendra Goel, former district president of the SP.
Azam Khan gained the seat 10 instances and his spouse Tazeen Fatma gained it as soon as. The BJP or Jan Sangh by no means gained it.
It stays to be seen if the BJP fields Akash Saxena within the Rampur seat but once more. He had contested the seat within the 2022 polls towards Azam and ended up as the primary runner-up.
He additionally was the primary one who wrote to the chief election commissioner, the Election Fee of India, searching for the termination of Azam Khan’s membership because the legislative meeting within the wake of Khan’s conviction and three-year jail time period by the MP/MLA court docket.
Akash Saxena, 47, is the one that filed about 30 of the practically 100 FIRs in Rampur towards Khan. Alternatively, a Rampur royalty, Nawab Kazim Ali Khan, tried to win the seat on a Congress ticket.