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  • Samajwadi Party’s mayoral candidate Archana Verma joins BJP

    Samajwadi Party’s mayoral candidate Archana Verma joins BJP

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    Lucknow: Samajwadi Party’s mayoral candidate from Shahjahanpur, Archana Verma on Sunday joined the BJP in the presence of senior party leaders, including Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak.

    Welcoming Verma into the party fold, Pathak said, “The Samajwadi Party (SP) had declared Archana Verma as its mayoral candidate from Shahjahanpur in the upcoming urban local bodies elections. However, she was finding it difficult to associate herself with the party (SP).

    “She was pained by the atrocities committed on women during the SP regime. When the SP declared her as its (mayoral) candidate, she decided to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on the call of nationalism given by Prime Minister Narendra Modi that those who want to work in a dedicated manner for Mother India, and establish a stronger rule of law in UP, should join the saffron party,” he said.

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    Pathak said Verma’s father-in-law Ram Murti Singh Verma was a four-time MLA (thrice from Jalalabad assembly constituency of Shahjahanpur, and once from Dadraul constituency). He was also a one-time MP of Shahjahanpur (1996), the minister said.

    Shahjahanpur will vote in the second phase on May 11. Counting of votes will take place on May 13.

    State ministers Suresh Khanna and J P S Rathore were also present at the press conference.

    Meanwhile, media co-incharge of the UP BJP, Abhay Singh said senior party leaders will flag off the party’s ‘vikas rath yatra’ on Monday from different cities of the state as part of campaigning for the ongoing urban local body election.

    Voting for the urban local body polls is scheduled for May 4 and 11. Counting of votes will take place on May 13.

    Election would be held for 17 seats of mayor, 1,420 seats of corporator, 199 seats of nagar palika parishad chairperson, 5,327 of nagar palika parishad member, 544 of nagar panchayat chairperson and 7,178 seats of nagar panchayat member.

    The politically crucial northern state sends 80 MPs to the Lok Sabha.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

  • Samajwadi Party trying to unite ‘Bahujan Samaj’: Akhilesh Yadav

    Samajwadi Party trying to unite ‘Bahujan Samaj’: Akhilesh Yadav

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    Lucknow: A day after BSP chief Mayawati targeted the Samajwadi Party, SP president Akhilesh Yadav on Monday said his party is out to unite the ‘Bahujan Samaj’ and warned those who “indirectly help” the BJP in elections.

    Mayawati on Sunday charged that the SP was trying to politically use the name of BSP founder Kanshi Ram even though it has a long history of being ungrateful to him as well as B R Ambedkar.

    Yadav attended a function in Rae Bareli on Monday after unveiling a statue of Kanshi Ram.

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    “We are the people who follow the path shown by Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar and Manyavar Kanshi Ram. We are not the ones who are out to make a dent in the ‘bahujan samaj’ but we are those who bind them. ‘Netaji’ Mulayam Singh Yadav and Manyavar Kanshi Ram had started a new kind of politics in the country,” the SP chief was quoted as saying in a press statement.

    The SP chief said Mulayam Singh Yadav had helped Kanshi Ram win the Lok Sabha seat from Etawah and reach Parliament.

    “Today there is a need to unite the society. The path shown by Dr Ram Manohar Lohia in the Samajwadi movement is the same path followed by Bhimrao Ambedkar and Kanshi Ram,” he said.

    Referring to the BJP slogan “Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas”, Yadav said it can be realised only when a caste census is undertaken.

    “Without a caste census, social justice and ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ is not possible. With the kind of decisions the BJP is taking, the backwards, Dalits and the poor will not be counted. BJP is handing over everything in private hands and after privatisation, how will backwards, Dalits get the rights given to them in the Constitution,” he asked.

    Saying that this fight is long, Yadav said “we tried , also got into an alliance with BSP and it reached ten from zero. Today all the big leaders of BSP are in Samajwadi Party.”

    “BJP contests elections by taking support of others and so, one has to be careful of the BJP and those who indirectly help the BJP,” he said.

    ‘Bahujan Samaj’ usually refers to Dalits and Other Backward Classes.

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    ( With inputs from www.siasat.com )