Why Mayawati has pitched BSP faces in all nine bypoll seats

Of these seats, the BSP had past finished arsenic the runner-up successful 1 seat, the SC (Scheduled Castes)-reserved Khair successful Aligarh district, and successful 3rd presumption successful 7 seats, which see Katehari, Phulpur, Meerapur, Karhal, Kundarki, Ghaziabad and Majahwan.

The BSP had enactment up its champion amusement successful Khair, wherever its campaigner garnered 26% votes, losing to the BJP’s campaigner by implicit 74,000 votes. The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), past an SP ally, had finished 3rd successful the spot with 16.57% votes. The RLD is present portion of the NDA.

In Katehari, wherever the SP had won, defeating the BJP’s state NISHAD enactment with a borderline of 7,696 votes, the BSP got 58,482 votes (23.62% votes). For the upcoming bypolls, each the 3 large contenders – the BJP, SP and BSP – person fielded the OBC candidates successful the constituency.

In the OBC-dominated Phulpur seat, wherever the BJP had defeated the SP with a borderline of 2,732 votes, the BSP had finished 3rd by getting 33,036 votes (13.4% votes).

In Majhawan, wherever the NISHAD enactment had emerged victorious by trouncing the SP with a borderline of 33,587 votes, the BSP secured 52,990 votes. While some the BJP and the SP person fielded OBC nominees for the spot bypoll, the BSP has nominated a Brahmin candidate.

In the 2022 elections, the RLD had won from Meerapur, defeating the BJP by 27,380 votes, with the BSP finishing astatine 3rd spot by getting 23,797 votes (11% votes). In the bypolls, some the BSP and the SP person fielded Muslim candidates successful the seat.

SP main Akhilesh Yadav had bagged the Karhal seat, defeating the BJP’s SP Singh Baghel by implicit 67,000 votes. The BSP’s Kuldip Narayan had ranked 3rd by garnering 6.37% votes. For the bypolls, the BSP has fielded its OBC person Avanish Kumar Shakya. Shakyas are the 2nd astir influential OBC assemblage successful Karhal aft Yadavs. The SP has fielded Akhilesh’s nephew Tej Pratap Yadav, portion the BJP has besides fielded a Yadav face.

The SP had clinched the Muslim-dominated Kundakri spot successful Moradabad district, defeating the BJP with a borderline of 43,162 votes, with the BSP finishing 3rd by securing 42,742 votes (15.73% votes). The BSP has nominated a Muslim campaigner from the constituency.

In the Ghaziabad seat, the BJP had defeated the SP by 1.05 lakh votes, with the BSP coming successful 3rd presumption with 13.36% votes. In 2022, the BSP had finished 4th successful the Sishamau spot wherever the SP had won by defeating the BJP by 12,266 votes. The BSP had got conscionable 2,937 votes (1.88% ballot share).

The Congress, which had past contested the authorities Assembly polls solo, had finished 3rd successful Sishamau with 5,616 votes. In the existent bypolls, the Congress arsenic an state of the SP has declared its enactment to the second successful each 9 constituencies aft not getting the seats it wanted to contest.

Although Mayawati and her nephew and BSP nationalist coordinator, Akash Anand, are successful the party’s database of prima campaigners, sources said some the leaders whitethorn not deed the run trail.

In a connection issued Saturday, Mayawati appealed to the voters to enactment her enactment successful the bypolls. Her determination to tract the BSP candidates is intelligibly aimed astatine mounting up a triangular contention successful each 9 seats successful a bid to task her enactment arsenic a challenger to some the BJP and the SP. She has accused the BJP and the SP of allegedly contesting the polls with “mutual understanding”.

The BSP’s fortunes person declined successful UP implicit the past respective years. In the 2022 Assembly polls, the enactment had managed to triumph lone 1 spot retired of 403, with its ballot stock plunging to 12.88% from 22.23% successful the 2017 polls (19 seats).