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As Ballia gears up to vote in the final phase on June 1, the BJP candidate is out to reclaim his family legacy while the Samajwadi Party (SP) has reposed its faith in a leader who narrowly lost the 2019 polls.
Confident of retaining its core Muslim-Yadav voter base and seeking to make inroads into the votes of non-Yadav OBCs, who are seen to be consolidated in favour of the BJP, the Samajwadi Party (SP) has fielded only five candidates from the Yadav community in the 62 seats it is contesting in Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha elections.
In an election where the BJP leadership has consistently used the term “do shehzade (two princes)” to attack Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav in Uttar Pradesh, the battle for the Allahabad Lok Sabha seat is between two scions as well – the BJP’s Neeraj Tripathi and Ujjwal Raman Singh of the Congress.
In an election where the BJP leadership has consistently used the term “do shehzade (two princes)” to attack Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav in Uttar Pradesh, the battle for the Allahabad Lok Sabha seat is between two scions as well – the BJP’s Neeraj Tripathi and Ujjwal Raman Singh of the Congress.
THEIR ALLIANCE having failed to make a dent the last time they got together in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party and Congress are working overtime to put up a united fight against the BJP as the Lok Sabha elections move towards the fourth and fifth phases.
“You know the biggest damage all this ‘Hindu-Muslim’ has done?… You start raising important issues like education, unemployment, and parties come up with something on religious lines,” says Moin Khwaja, 21, who after graduation works as operator at a cyber cafe, earning Rs 10,000 per month, in Ruknuddin Sarai village in Sambhal constituency.
Esar Rizvi, 32, and friend Mohammad Faizuddin, 34, have devised a test to determine whom to vote for this time in the Firozabad Lok Sabha seat. They are making rounds of the election offices of both the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), located 300 metres apart in Firozabad town, to see “which party treats us, and hence Muslim voters, better”.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) that is contesting 62 constituencies in Uttar Pradesh has changed candidates in 10 of the constituencies to date, including twice in as many days.