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Riot baggage SP may contest fewer seats in west UP

| Friday | 18th January, 2019

Another reason for SP to maintain a low profile is the thin presence of its committed votebank of Yadavs, whose presence here in west UP is negligible. With the support of RLD, the alliance is banking upon the powerful combination of Jat-Jatav-Muslims to give a stiff challenge to the BJP. Like BSP, RLD had also drawn a blank in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections after the Jats’ exodus to BJP.However, RLD leadership has worked hard over the last year and is seen to have substantially regained ground by raising agrarian issues. Since then, top SP leadership has avoided visiting there.SP chief Akhilesh Yadav had even stayed away from campaigning during the Kairana Lok Sabha byelections last year, when RLD fielded its candidate against the BJP.RLD, with the support of SP and BSP, had defeated the BJP candidate, which was the third consecutive defeat of the BJP following the BSP-SP alliance supported by RLD.Now, as Lok Sabha elections near, SP is likely to take the same line and field less candidates in the region and allow BSP to have a larger chunk. LUCKNOW: The Samajwadi Party (SP), which saw the infamous Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013 when it was in power in the state, is likely to contest less seats in western UP as compared to its electoral partner BSP in general elections.Of the nearly 22 Lok Sabha constituencies in the western region of the state, out of a total 80 in the state, SP is likely to contest around eight, giving BSP 11 and three to the RLD, though the final figures are yet to be declared .Sources said that SP may be making a retreat in the region to avoid any backlash on its candidates owing to the 2013 communal riots, which saw the death of over 50 people and thousands displaced.The riots took such serious proportion that then prime minister Manmohan Singh had visited the affected areas.

LUCKNOW: The Samajwadi Party (SP), which saw the infamous Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013 when it was in power in the state, is likely to contest less seats in western UP as compared to its electoral partner BSP in general elections.Of the nearly 22 Lok Sabha constituencies in the western region of the state, out of a total 80 in the state, SP is likely to contest around eight, giving BSP 11 and three to the RLD, though the final figures are yet to be declared .Sources said that SP may be making a retreat in the region to avoid any backlash on its candidates owing to the 2013 communal riots, which saw the death of over 50 people and thousands displaced.The riots took such serious proportion that then prime minister Manmohan Singh had visited the affected areas. Since then, top SP leadership has avoided visiting there.SP chief Akhilesh Yadav had even stayed away from campaigning during the Kairana Lok Sabha byelections last year, when RLD fielded its candidate against the BJP.RLD, with the support of SP and BSP, had defeated the BJP candidate, which was the third consecutive defeat of the BJP following the BSP-SP alliance supported by RLD.Now, as Lok Sabha elections near, SP is likely to take the same line and field less candidates in the region and allow BSP to have a larger chunk. With the support of RLD, the alliance is banking upon the powerful combination of Jat-Jatav-Muslims to give a stiff challenge to the BJP. Like BSP, RLD had also drawn a blank in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections after the Jats’ exodus to BJP.However, RLD leadership has worked hard over the last year and is seen to have substantially regained ground by raising agrarian issues. Another reason for SP to maintain a low profile is the thin presence of its committed votebank of Yadavs, whose presence here in west UP is negligible.

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