- Akhilesh played the Ayodhya bet, will the overthrow be possible?
- Akhilesh’s political experiment with Congress seat quotas
4 p.m. News Network
Lucknow. Since the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, SP president Akhilesh Yadav is distributing tickets after thinking very carefully and strategically about the issue of ticket distribution. Whatever experiments Akhilesh did regarding ticket distribution in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, they turned out to be successful. SP president Akhilesh Yadav played the biggest match in Ayodhya. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, playing the Dalit card at the Ayodhya general headquarters, nominated Avadhesh Prasad, who soundly defeated BJP’s Lallu Singh in Ayodhya. SP president Akhilesh Yadav is now doing the same social engineering in the UP by-elections.
In fact, the political board has been set for the by-elections to be held in 9 Uttar Pradesh Assembly seats, SP and BJP are in a head-to-head contest in this election. Although the BSP has also fielded candidates for 9 seats, it is believed that the fight will be solely between the BJP and the SP. The SP was giving two seats to the Congress in the by-elections, Khair and Ghaziabad, but the Congress did not agree on two seats. When the Congress took a step back, Akhilesh Yadav fielded his candidates in those two seats too, then he adopted the Ayodhya strategy and to defeat the BJP, the SP played a big game here by giving ticket to the Dalit candidate against the Brahmin candidate of the BJP. The BJP has a strong hold on the Khair assembly seats in Ghaziabad and Aligarh, considering the BJP’s political control in both the seats, the Congress had abstained from participating in the by-elections. Following this, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav announced the names of his candidates for both the seats on Thursday evening. In which the ticket was given to Charu Kain in Khair seat and Singh Raj Jatav in Ghaziabad seat.
Ayodhya as an experiment in Ghaziabad
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav has made a political move in Ghaziabad assembly seat along with Ayodhya and Meerut Lok Sabha seat. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Akhilesh had experimented with fielding Dalit candidates in general seats like Meerut and Faizabad, which was a success. The SP had fielded Dalit candidate in the form of Awadhesh Prasad in the Faizabad Lok Sabha seat and Sunita Verma in the Meerut seat. The SP managed to give tough competition to the BJP in both seats. In Ayodhya, SP’s Awadhesh Prasad had registered a landslide victory, while in Meerut, Sunita Verma had lost by razor-thin votes. Repeating the Faizabad political experiment, the SP has fielded Singh Raj Jatav, from the Dalit community, for Sadar Assembly seat in Ghaziabad. BJP has fielded Sanjeev Sharma playing the Brahmin card, while BSP has gone for Parmanand Garg, who hails from the Vaishya community. In such a situation, SP has killed many birds with one stone by fielding a Dalit candidate in the general seat. Through this strategy, the SP aims to get Dalit votes along with Yadav and Muslims. Apart from this, the way they have presented the Jatav candidate is a direct indication of a gap in Mayawati’s core vote bank. Ghaziabad seat has a large number of Dalit voters, if Singh manages to connect with them through Raj Jatav, then the game of both BJP and BSP can be ruined.
The SP is eyeing which vote bank?
In this by-election, the SP is considering a Dalit-Muslim alliance, while SP chief Akhilesh Yadav is pushing the PDA (backward Dalit minority) ticket. This formula of theirs was also successful in the Lok Sabha elections, which has boosted the morale of the SP and Akhilesh Yadav. This is not the first time SP has conducted this experiment in Ghaziabad. The SP had also fielded Vishal Verma, who hails from the Dalit community, in the 2022 assembly elections, but BJP’s Atul Garg managed to win from Ghaziabad for the second time in a row.
SP played a big victim card in Aligarh
The Samajwadi Party has played a big victim card to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party in Aligarh. The SP has given a ticket to Charu Kain, daughter-in-law of former BJP district panchayat president Tejveer Singh Guddu, in Khair. The BJP has fielded Surendra Diler, son of late former MP Rajveer Diler, as its candidate from Khair seat. Charu Kain had joined the Congress just a few days ago. Before that, Charu Kain had also contested the Bahujan Samaj Party elections. Charu Kain has a good influence on Bahujan Samaj Party votes, Charu Kain comes from SC community but her husband is from Jat community so the chances of getting votes from Jat community and SC community have been become the center of discussion in political circles. Charu Kain, who shocked the BSP ahead of the Khair Assembly by-elections, has opposed the Khair Assembly elections in 2022. On October 5, he left the BSP and joined the Congress in connection with the by-elections. of the UP.
How was the battle of Ghaziabad?
The by-elections will be held in Ghaziabad due to the election of former MP Atul Garg as MP. Garg had won the 2022 assembly elections by a margin of over one lakh votes. In that election, BJP’s Atul Garg got 1 lakh 50,205 votes, SP’s Vishal Verma got 44,668 votes, BSP’s KK Shukla got 32,691 votes and Congress’s Sushant Goyal got 11,818 votes. However, these figures show that Ghaziabad voters voted irrespective of their caste. Information on which side the camel will sit in Ghaziabad in the by-elections will not be known until November 23, when the results of the vote counting will be known.
