Assembly.samajwadi party, Political party

Lucknow, March 11 Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav may have been called the architect of the OBC alliance in the recently concluded elections in Uttar Pradesh but the results show that his party lost to the BJP in its family boroughs.The Etawah assembly seat has been won by the BJP's Sarita while Jaiveer Singh of the BJP has won the Mainpuri assembly seat.In Etah, it is again the BJP which has won the seat while Firozabad - which is the bastion of Prof Ram Gopal Yadav - has been won by the BJP's Manish Asija.Kannauj, that was said to be the strongest Samajwadi area, has also been wrested by first timer and former IPS officer Aseem Arun.The only saving grace in these Samajwadi strongholds is the victory of Akhilesh Yadav from Karhal in Mainpuri and Shivpal Yadav from Jaswantnagar in Etawah.According to sources, the BJP effectively dismantled the OBC rainbow that Akhilesh had built through a new vote bank of 'Labharti' - beneficiaries of various government schemes."We did not hanker after castes and communities. We reached out to the beneficiaries of our central and state schemes and explained to them how they had benefitted under the double-engine government. The caste factor automatically got decimated and we won with handsome margins in areas that were believed to be Samajwadi bastions," said a senior BJP functionary.He said that the 'Labharti' group had got houses, toilets, free rations, gas connections, power connections and money in their accounts. "All this was given without caste consideration and the magic worked," he said.Interestingly, none of the opposition parties gave a second thought to the emergence of the 'Labharti' vote bank and restricted their campaign to criticism of the BJP government.A Congress functionary admitted, on condition of anonymity, that the party had overlooked the 'Labharti' factor."It was a mistake and we have paid heavily for it. The BJP quietly created this vote bank while we pursued traditional politics," he said.Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

Assembly.samajwadi PartyFOLLOW

Assembly.samajwadi party, Latest News

Lucknow, March 13 The allegation in the UP elections that AIMIM led by Asaduddin Owaisi, was actually a ... ...

Lucknow, March 13 After the popularity of the bulldozer in the Uttar Pradesh elections, it has turned into ... ...

After the poll defeat in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party ally Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohiya) chief Shivpal Singh Yadav said that the atmosphere was conducive for the party to win the elections but there were organisational shortcomings. ...

Lucknow, March 13 For Samajwadi Party (SP) President Akhilesh Yadav, one journey has ended and another has just ... ...

Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav and party leader Azam Khan - the newly-elected MLAs from Karhal and Rampur respectively - are likely to resign from Uttar Pradesh Assembly and continue as Member of Parliament, said sources. ...

Samajwadi Party (SP) leader and former Uttar Pradesh minister Swami Prasad Maurya, who lost the assembly polls from Fazilnagar, has said that defeat and victory are part of democracy and the issues for which he left the BJP continue to be relevant. ...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, a monk-turned-politician, won his first-ever Assembly election by a margin of 1,03,390 from Gorakhpur Urban constituency, defeating Samajwadi Party candidate Subhawati Upendra Dutt Shukla, who secured 62, ...

Lucknow, March 11 Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav may have been called the architect of the OBC alliance ... ...