With Om Prakash Rajbhar breaking ties with Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) BJPAnupriya Patel-led Apna Dal (Sonelal) is now expected to get more seats in the 2022 assembly elections in alliance with the saffron party. Another BJP ally, the Nishad Party, which often flexes its muscles, wants to contest a “respectable number of seats”, according to a party functionary.
Of the seats the two junior allies of the ruling party are eyeing, eight seats were fielded by the SBSP in the 2017 assembly polls. In that election, Apna Dal (S), which has influence among Kurmi voters, contested 11 seats and won nine, while the SBSP, which has influence in the Rajbhar community, won four.
Apna Dal (S) president Anupriya Patel is holding public meetings in areas beyond her stronghold in eastern UP this time to expand her footprint. Patel, who is the Union Minister of State (Commerce and Industry)? Narendra Modi The government at the Center has held rallies in Banda (Bundelkhand region); Ayodhya, Basti and Kushinagar (in Eastern UP). Later this month, she will address public meetings in Azamgarh (East UP), Pratapgarh (Central UP) and Jhansi (Bundelkhand).
“The acceptance of the party has increased over the years among all sections of people including OBC, SC, ST and upper castes. We have expanded our organizations and also won the Panchayat elections. Now we are ready to contest on 200 assembly seats.
Patel further said, “But the final decision will be taken when the leaders of both the sides meet at the negotiating table.” Apna Dal(S) in alliance with BJP will fight whatever seats it gets as the alliance’s victory is most important to form the government.
Last time with nine MLAs, the Apna Dal (S) had a ministerial post in the state government, and two more leaders were appointed chairman and vice-chairman of different boards of the BJP-led state government.
On December 3, Anupriya Patel and party working president Ashish Patel met senior BJP leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah and his cabinet colleague. Dharmendra Pradhan, who is in charge of the party’s UP election efforts in New Delhi. Ashish Patel says Indian Express The seat-sharing arrangement was not discussed in the meeting.
Meanwhile, Nishad Party chief Sanjay Nishad also met Pradhan in New Delhi. “The meeting was held, but nothing came out on seat sharing. However, the party has made necessary preparations to contest the upcoming elections in UP.
In 2017, the Nishad Party, or Nirbal Indian Shoshit Hamara Aam Dal, contested 72 seats on its own and managed to capture only one. Two years later, it contested the Lok Sabha elections in alliance with the BJP. Sanjay Nishad’s son Praveen Nishad contested the parliamentary election from Sant Kabir Nagar on a BJP candidate and was elected to the Lok Sabha. This September, Dharmendra Pradhan announced the continuation of the alliance between the two parties.
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