Lucknow: Where Chapakal remained on the candidature of CM Yogi Adityanath and Deputy CM Keshav Prasad. maurya There were three other names from Gorakhpur (urban) and Sirathu respectively. BJPList of 105 that stood out – Baby Rani Maurya, Jaivir Singh and Sahender Singh Ramla.
While the Mauryas are Jatavs, Dalits The sub-caste that includes BSP chief Mayawati, Jaiveer Singh, a Thakur, is a BSP turncoat who resigned from the UP Legislative Council to make way for Yogi Adityanath, who took the reins after the BJP came to power in 2017. There is Ram. A Jat, who resigned from the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) to join BJP in 2018.
Analysts see this as a smart move by the BJP to give much-needed traction to its Dalit Jat-Thakur social alliance, which is electorally important in western UP, where the BJP faces a vocal alliance of SP and RLD. have to do. , While the SP draws its electoral power essentially from the Muslim community, the RLD has a strong base among the Jat voters.
Baby Rani Maurya, who is the National Vice President of BJP, will contest from reserved Agra (Rural) seat in place of Dhobi sub-caste BJP MLA Hemlata Diwakar Kushwaha.
In 2017, Hemlata had defeated Kalicharan Suman of BSP by a margin of around 65,000 votes, while capturing more than 52% of the votes. Sources said that by fielding Maurya from Agra, which is considered to be the Dalit capital of UP, BJP wants to drive out the Dalit voters who are behind Mayawati’s BSP.
Jaiveer Singh, who contested from Barauli assembly seat of Aligarh, has replaced sitting BJP MLA Dalveer Singh. Significantly, Jaiveer was elected to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council in 2018 soon after vacating the seat for Yogi in 2017.
Sahendra Singh Ramala, MLA from Chhaprauli in Baghpat district, was the only RLD candidate to win the 2017 assembly elections. His defections to the BJP had left the then Ajit Singh-led organization faceless in the UP assembly.
While the Mauryas are Jatavs, Dalits The sub-caste that includes BSP chief Mayawati, Jaiveer Singh, a Thakur, is a BSP turncoat who resigned from the UP Legislative Council to make way for Yogi Adityanath, who took the reins after the BJP came to power in 2017. There is Ram. A Jat, who resigned from the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) to join BJP in 2018.
Analysts see this as a smart move by the BJP to give much-needed traction to its Dalit Jat-Thakur social alliance, which is electorally important in western UP, where the BJP faces a vocal alliance of SP and RLD. have to do. , While the SP draws its electoral power essentially from the Muslim community, the RLD has a strong base among the Jat voters.
Baby Rani Maurya, who is the National Vice President of BJP, will contest from reserved Agra (Rural) seat in place of Dhobi sub-caste BJP MLA Hemlata Diwakar Kushwaha.
In 2017, Hemlata had defeated Kalicharan Suman of BSP by a margin of around 65,000 votes, while capturing more than 52% of the votes. Sources said that by fielding Maurya from Agra, which is considered to be the Dalit capital of UP, BJP wants to drive out the Dalit voters who are behind Mayawati’s BSP.
Jaiveer Singh, who contested from Barauli assembly seat of Aligarh, has replaced sitting BJP MLA Dalveer Singh. Significantly, Jaiveer was elected to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council in 2018 soon after vacating the seat for Yogi in 2017.
Sahendra Singh Ramala, MLA from Chhaprauli in Baghpat district, was the only RLD candidate to win the 2017 assembly elections. His defections to the BJP had left the then Ajit Singh-led organization faceless in the UP assembly.