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LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, on Thursday, denied but once more having obtained Congress’s invite to hitch Bharat Jodo Yatra in UP commencing on January 3 saying that neither he nor his social gathering obtained any invitation.
“We have not received any invitation (for Bharat Jodo Yatra). The ideology of our party is different. BJP and Congress both are same,” stated Yadav in a direct reply to a poser by media individuals right here on Thursday.
Earlier within the week, Akhilesh had laughed off the Congress’s invitation as a mere gossip (chandukhane ki gupp) saying although he agreed with the concept of uniting the nation “but who would remove BJP.”
Not solely the SP chief however all different opposition leaders of UP appear to be reluctant in becoming a member of excessive profile yatra on one pretext or the opposite. While BSP state chief Vishwanath Pal additionally denied having obtained the invite, RLD spokesman Anil Dubey claimed that his social gathering president Jayant Chaudhury wouldn’t be in India throughout these dates.
On the opposite, the Congress management has been claiming to have despatched the invite to a bevy of leaders starting from former UP Deputy CM Dr Dinesh Sharma to SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, RLD chief Jayant Chaudhury, BSP chief Mayawati, BSP normal secretary SC Mishra, SP MLA Shivpal Yadav, Suheldev Bahartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) chief OP Rajbhar and CPI normal secretary Atul Anjan to hitch the UP leg of its Yatra led by Rahul Gandhi masking 110 km throughout three western UP districts—Ghaziabad, Baghpat and Shamli — earlier than getting into Sonepat in Haryana by way of Kairana on January 5.
By inviting UP leaders to hitch Yatra, whereas Congress is searching for a possibility to present a push to its revival bid in UP by projecting it because the chief of united opposition, the UP opposition leaders are delicate sufficient to let Congress capitalise on it.
“The Congress’s thought behind extending invite to UP leaders seems to be its another desperate bid to revive its prospects in Uttar Pradesh by putting up a united face of the opposition under its leadership as it has reduced literally to a non-entity in UP,” says Prof SK Dwivedi, former HoD, Political Science,
Lucknow University.
He provides that opposite to Congress’s efforts, the opposition is attempting to maintain the it at a protected distance. “The regional satraps neither want to give space to Congress in UP, nor do they want to be seen as having accepted Congress leadership ahead of 2024 for it will send a different message among the voters,” says
Prof Dwivedi.
As for SP, Akhilesh Yadav is reluctant to hitch Yatra as a result of he doesn’t need to be seen related to the Congress forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, really feel a senior SP chief.
A senior SP chief says on the situation of anonymity that the social gathering has have a foul expertise of alliance with Congress in 2017 meeting polls. It doesn’t need to repeat the identical mistake by becoming a member of the yatra which is able to set off recent speculations about an SP-Congress alliance in 2024.
“In 2017, we had spared 105 of 403 seats for the Congress which could win just seven. We also lost many owing to that alliance and could get just 47,” says the SP chief claiming that now the social gathering has determined to align with smaller outfits as an alternative of becoming a member of arms with greater events which anticipate a lot however fail to ship on their half.
“Same happened in 2019, when SP-BSP came together but to no avail as SP transferred votes to the BSP which improved its tally respectably by 10 from zero in Lok Sabha, but the BSP failed to deliver and its voters did not back SP candidates,” says the SP chief.
The distinction of SP’s method in the direction of alliances turned clear in 2022 Assembly elections. “In 2022, we took along smaller parties and the tally of SP-led alliance jumped to 125 from 54 in 2017,” he maintains including: “We have not benefitted from alliance with bigger parties but they have benefited from the SP’s support base.”
Similarly, BSP chief Mayawati, after profitable only one seat in 2022 UP meeting polls, is treading cautiously and has determined to go it alone in upcoming elections.
Moreover, AICC chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had launched direct assault on Mayawati accusing her of enjoying BJP’s B staff throughout 2022 ballot marketing campaign and in any other case additionally.
“We do not want to get associated with any party. We are charting out own course,” says BSP state chief Vishwanath Pal saying that his social gathering was busy making ready for upcoming civic polls and 2024 Lok Sabah polls alone.
After the UP Assembly elections, Mayawati has been reorganising her social gathering going again to her fundamentals and banking upon the Dalit-Muslim mixture relinquishing her social engineering method of Dalit-Brahmin-Muslim which had led her social gathering to get a historic mandate in 2007 meeting elections however did not impress voters in 2022.
Meanwhile, Congress state sokeman Ashok Singh calls it the politics of concern. “We are fighting it by uniting the country through Bharat Jodo Yatra. We had invited leaders of other parties to join us in this battle. If they come, they are welcome, if not, its their wish,” says Singh.
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, on Thursday, denied but once more having obtained Congress’s invite to hitch Bharat Jodo Yatra in UP commencing on January 3 saying that neither he nor his social gathering obtained any invitation.
“We have not received any invitation (for Bharat Jodo Yatra). The ideology of our party is different. BJP and Congress both are same,” stated Yadav in a direct reply to a poser by media individuals right here on Thursday.
Earlier within the week, Akhilesh had laughed off the Congress’s invitation as a mere gossip (chandukhane ki gupp) saying although he agreed with the concept of uniting the nation “but who would remove BJP.”
Not solely the SP chief however all different opposition leaders of UP appear to be reluctant in becoming a member of excessive profile yatra on one pretext or the opposite. While BSP state chief Vishwanath Pal additionally denied having obtained the invite, RLD spokesman Anil Dubey claimed that his social gathering president Jayant Chaudhury wouldn’t be in India throughout these dates.
On the opposite, the Congress management has been claiming to have despatched the invite to a bevy of leaders starting from former UP Deputy CM Dr Dinesh Sharma to SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, RLD chief Jayant Chaudhury, BSP chief Mayawati, BSP normal secretary SC Mishra, SP MLA Shivpal Yadav, Suheldev Bahartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) chief OP Rajbhar and CPI normal secretary Atul Anjan to hitch the UP leg of its Yatra led by Rahul Gandhi masking 110 km throughout three western UP districts—Ghaziabad, Baghpat and Shamli — earlier than getting into Sonepat in Haryana by way of Kairana on January 5.
By inviting UP leaders to hitch Yatra, whereas Congress is searching for a possibility to present a push to its revival bid in UP by projecting it because the chief of united opposition, the UP opposition leaders are delicate sufficient to let Congress capitalise on it.
“The Congress’s thought behind extending invite to UP leaders seems to be its another desperate bid to revive its prospects in Uttar Pradesh by putting up a united face of the opposition under its leadership as it has reduced literally to a non-entity in UP,” says Prof SK Dwivedi, former HoD, Political Science,
Lucknow University.
He provides that opposite to Congress’s efforts, the opposition is attempting to maintain the it at a protected distance. “The regional satraps neither want to give space to Congress in UP, nor do they want to be seen as having accepted Congress leadership ahead of 2024 for it will send a different message among the voters,” says
Prof Dwivedi.
As for SP, Akhilesh Yadav is reluctant to hitch Yatra as a result of he doesn’t need to be seen related to the Congress forward of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, really feel a senior SP chief.
A senior SP chief says on the situation of anonymity that the social gathering has have a foul expertise of alliance with Congress in 2017 meeting polls. It doesn’t need to repeat the identical mistake by becoming a member of the yatra which is able to set off recent speculations about an SP-Congress alliance in 2024.
“In 2017, we had spared 105 of 403 seats for the Congress which could win just seven. We also lost many owing to that alliance and could get just 47,” says the SP chief claiming that now the social gathering has determined to align with smaller outfits as an alternative of becoming a member of arms with greater events which anticipate a lot however fail to ship on their half.
“Same happened in 2019, when SP-BSP came together but to no avail as SP transferred votes to the BSP which improved its tally respectably by 10 from zero in Lok Sabha, but the BSP failed to deliver and its voters did not back SP candidates,” says the SP chief.
The distinction of SP’s method in the direction of alliances turned clear in 2022 Assembly elections. “In 2022, we took along smaller parties and the tally of SP-led alliance jumped to 125 from 54 in 2017,” he maintains including: “We have not benefitted from alliance with bigger parties but they have benefited from the SP’s support base.”
Similarly, BSP chief Mayawati, after profitable only one seat in 2022 UP meeting polls, is treading cautiously and has determined to go it alone in upcoming elections.
Moreover, AICC chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had launched direct assault on Mayawati accusing her of enjoying BJP’s B staff throughout 2022 ballot marketing campaign and in any other case additionally.
“We do not want to get associated with any party. We are charting out own course,” says BSP state chief Vishwanath Pal saying that his social gathering was busy making ready for upcoming civic polls and 2024 Lok Sabah polls alone.
After the UP Assembly elections, Mayawati has been reorganising her social gathering going again to her fundamentals and banking upon the Dalit-Muslim mixture relinquishing her social engineering method of Dalit-Brahmin-Muslim which had led her social gathering to get a historic mandate in 2007 meeting elections however did not impress voters in 2022.
Meanwhile, Congress state sokeman Ashok Singh calls it the politics of concern. “We are fighting it by uniting the country through Bharat Jodo Yatra. We had invited leaders of other parties to join us in this battle. If they come, they are welcome, if not, its their wish,” says Singh.
