After demanding seat-sharing talks in MVA, SP takes lead in declaring 5 candidates in Maharashtra

Speaking to the media successful Dhulia, Akhilesh said, “This announcement (of candidates) has been made due to the fact that they are doing bully enactment here. At slightest the spot of our enactment tin beryllium seen… Ever since the predetermination dates person been announced, our enactment is connected the ground. We bash not privation immoderate hold this time.”

He said the SP has demanded 12 seats successful Maharashtra. “We person our 2 MLAs here… We are those radical who get satisfied with lesser seats arsenic well… Yesterday we were successful Malegaon… We person declared seats wherever the enactment is strong,” said Akhilesh.

The different seats the SP is eyeing arsenic portion of the MVA are Raver and Amravati, wherever the Congress has sitting MLAs, Byculla, Versova, Aurangabad East, Anushakti Nagar and Karanja.

In the 2019 Assembly polls, the SP had contested connected 7 seats and won two.

Speaking to The Indian Express, Azmi, who is the authorities SP chief, said the announcement of his and Rais Shaikh’s sanction was certain. About the different 3 candidates, helium said, “In a survey it has been recovered that the SP campaigner is champion successful Bhiwandi West seat. The different 2 seats (Malegaon Central and Dhule City) were won by AIMIM (in 2019) due to the fact that of Muslim votes. (Here) SP power among minorities is much than that of AIMIM. Also determination are northbound Indian voters who tin enactment SP due to the fact that of Akhilesh Yadav. If SP contests connected these seats successful confederation with the Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT) and NCP (SP), that volition make a beardown presumption for america there,” Azmi said.

He said helium had discussed the names of the SP candidates connected the 5 seats with Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT), NCP (SP) and they “did not entity to immoderate of them”.Azmi besides said the SP should get a fewer much seats successful MVA.

THe SP person had earlier this week said that the Congress should instrumentality the SP into assurance earlier releasing its database of candidates and urged that a determination connected seat-sharing beryllium taken astatine the earliest. On Wednesday, helium posted connected X that it would beryllium incorrect for immoderate of the MVA parties to merchandise the database “without talking to the SP”.

There was nary contiguous absorption from immoderate of the MVA constituents connected the SP’s announcement of candidates successful Maharashtra.

Last week, a time aft the Congress mislaid the Haryana Assembly elections, the SP had named candidates for six of the 10 Assembly seats successful Uttar Pradesh wherever bypolls are scheduled adjacent month. Sources said the Congress, which was demanding 5 seats from the SP, was not consulted earlier the announcement of the SP candidates.