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Setting the stage for a potentially dramatic contest in the forthcoming Rajya Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP on Thursday fielded party leader Sanjay Seth in the fray as its eighth candidate.
Responding to Union Minister of State (MoS) Anupriya Patel’s letter urging UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to end the practice of the reservation seats meant for SC, ST and OBC candidates becoming “unreserved” in government recruitment process, the Adityanath government has sent a detailed reply to her, stating that the quota posts remaining vacant after the selection process are not converted to unreserved posts and are carried forward to the next recruitment process.
While taking oath in the Lok Sabha earlier this week, Awadhesh Prasad, the newly-elected Samajwadi Party MP from Faizabad, invoked ‘Veerangana’ Uda Devi and ‘Maharaja’ Bijli Pasi, two prominent personalities of the Pasi (Dalit) community. Prasad himself belongs to the Pasi community, who number over three lakh in the Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency and who are believed to have voted en masse to elect him over his BJP opponent.
Finally, after two decades of ‘will she, won’t she’, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is going to make her electoral debut now. She will contest the Lok Sabha bypoll from Kerala’s Wayanad, the constituency that her brother Rahul Gandhi has vacated so as to retain his Rae Bareli seat in Uttar Pradesh instead.
How well-connected were candidates with the public? What was the impact of the Constitution and reservation issues on the campaign? Did decisions of the government, the Centre and/or the state, play a role in a loss?
The BJP rose as a formidable political force in western UP in 2014, a year after the Muzaffarnagar riots. In the rest of the crucial heartland state too, in 2014, the BJP turned a new leaf, as it swept the Lok Sabha polls riding the Narendra Modi wave. In the process the BJP routed key regional players like the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which had between them held power in the state for over a decade.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and RSS chief are set to meet in Gorakhpur, Adityanath's constituency, on Saturday afternoon. The "courtesy meet" coincides with Bhagwat's visit for an RSS event either between 2 and 4 pm or after the latter's visit to the Gorakhnath Temple.
After the just-concluded Lok Sabha polls, the stage is now set in Uttar Pradesh for bypolls in 10 Assembly seats over the next few months. Nine MLAs, mainly from the ruling BJP as well as the principal Opposition Samajwadi Party (SP), emerged victorious from various Lok Sabha constituencies in the polls. Some of them have already resigned from the Assembly to retain their Lok Sabha seats, and the remaining would do so in the coming days.
At a time the BJP is set to conduct a review of its Lok Sabha election performance in Uttar Pradesh and several leaders have blamed “internal sabotage” for the party’s poor showing, two prominent BJP leaders from west UP are publicly targeting each other.