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The Samajwadi Party (SP) has fielded 31-year-old Shreya Verma, the granddaughter of the party’s prominent Kurmi leader late Beni Prasad Verma, from the Gonda seat in Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Four days after his party sealed a seat-sharing pact with the Congress, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday joined Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Agra. Both leaders addressed the gathering, which included students and job aspirants, targeting the BJP governments at the Centre and the state.
Former Union minister and five-time MP Saleem Shervani has resigned as the Samajwadi Party (SP) national general secretary, accusing party president Akhilesh Yadav of “ignoring” the PDA communities. The PDA acronym, coined by Akhilesh himself, stands for Pichda (backwards), Dalits and Alpasankhyak (minorities). In his resignation letter sent to Akhilesh on Sunday, Shervani, 70, asked how the SP was different from the BJP and that the party’s candidates for the February 27 Rajya Sabha elections did not have a Muslim name. In an interview with The Indian Express, Shervani speaks about these issues and his next moves. Excerpts:
After weeks of tense negotiations and hard bargaining, the INDIA alliance partners Samajwadi Party (SP) and Congress finalised their seat-sharing pact in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
A day after claiming to have offered 17 Lok Sabha seats to the Congress in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party (SP) on Tuesday declared its candidate for the Varanasi constituency and appointed two leaders as in-charge for Amroha. Both Varanasi and Amroha featured in the list of 17 seats offered to the Congress.
A day after claiming to have offered 17 Lok Sabha seats to the Congress in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party (SP) on Tuesday declared its candidate for the Varanasi constituency and appointed two leaders as in-charge for Amroha. Both Varanasi and Amroha featured in the list of 17 seats offered to the Congress.
About a week after resigning from his party post alleging “discrimination” and accusing Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav of ignoring the Pichda, Dalit and Alpasankhyak (PDA), Swami Prasad Maurya quit the party on Tuesday.
Among the list of 11 candidates whose names the Samajwadi Party (SP) announced on Monday for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, amid seat-sharing talks with the Congress, one name is bound to raise eyebrows — Afzal Ansari. Not only is the 70-year-old a sitting Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) MP from Ghazipur, he was sentenced to four years in April 2023 in a Gangsters Act case, and is now out on bail, with his disqualification as an MP temporarily suspended by the Supreme Court.