Hours after giving 15 seats deal problem to Congress, Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party introduced an inventory of 11 extra candidates yesterday which included OBCs as effectively. This has cleared Akhilesh Yadav’s intention to straight tackle the BJP which considers the OBC class as its largest vote financial institution. So far, the SP has fielded 27 candidates, with 4 non-Yadav OBC candidates included within the second record of 11. In the primary record of 16 candidates, 8 non-Yadav OBC candidates have been nominated. Out of the full 27 candidates, 15 belong to the OBC class. Akhilesh Yadav has been pitching PDA- Pichhda, Dali and Alpsankhyak playing cards in opposition to the BJP-led NDA for the upcoming Lok Sabha Elections.
PDA Equation In Second List
Four of the 11 candidates introduced within the second record of the Samajwadi Party belong to backward communities. In addition, 5 candidates are from scheduled castes. Veerendra Singh is a Kshatriya, whereas Afzal Ansari is a Muslim. The scrutiny was additionally intense as a result of a number of leaders of the Samajwadi Party (SP) are accused of neglecting the Scheduled Castes. Previously, on January 30, the primary record of the SP was launched, which included the names of 16 candidates. In whole, the SP has now introduced the names of 27 candidates.
Among them, Afzal Ansari, the brother of the mafia don Mukhtar Ansari, has been nominated from Ghazipur, Harendra Malik from Muzaffarnagar, Neeraj Maurya from Aonla, Rajesh Kashyap from Shahjahanpur, and Usha Varma from Hardoi. From the Mishrikh Lok Sabha seat, the SP has fielded Ram Pal Rajvanshi, A.R.Ok. Chaudhary from Mohanlalganj, and A.S.P. Singh Patel from Pratapgarh. The occasion has additionally positioned bets on Ramesh Gautam from Bahraich, Veerendra Singh from Chandauli, and Shreya Varma from Gonda.
Afzal Ansari is Muslim, Harendra Malik is Jat, Neeraj Maurya is OBC, Rajesh Kashyap is Scheduled Caste, Usha Varma is OBC, Ram Pal Rajvanshi is Scheduled Caste, A.R.Ok. Chaudhary is Scheduled Caste, Ramesh Gautam is Scheduled Caste, whereas Veerendra Singh is a Kshatriya. This signifies that the Samajwadi Party has labored to handle the continual criticism of sidelining the Scheduled Castes in its second record.
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Why SP Facing Anger Of Its Leaders?
Last week, the Samajwadi Party nominated Jaya Bachchan, Alok Ranjan – former IAS officer and shut affiliate of Akhilesh Yadav, and former MP Ramji Lal Suman for Rajya Sabha seats, prompting criticism from Pallavi Patel. Pallavi Patel is the top of the occasion’s Scheduled Caste cell and contested the 2022 UP Assembly elections in opposition to the SP.
She alleged that each Jaya Bachchan and Alok Ranjan belong to the upper caste. She even went so far as threatening that she wouldn’t vote for the candidates within the Rajya Sabha elections. Meanwhile, because of the absence of any Muslim candidate’s title within the SP’s Rajya Sabha record, Salim Sherwani left the occasion, stating that regardless of repeated requests, at the very least one Muslim candidate’s title was not included within the Rajya Sabha record.
On the opposite hand, Rajpal Kashyap, commenting on the brand new record, mentioned, “All elements of the Scheduled Castes are present in this list. It is not an attempt to calm the expressed dissatisfaction with the announced candidates for the Rajya Sabha elections.”
