Peoples' democratic party, Party

Lucknow, Oct 19 The Samajwadi Party has started preparing for the 2022 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.Party President Akhilesh Yadav has invited applications from potential candidates for the Assembly polls.Aspiring candidates can submit applications from Monday until January 26, 2021 at the party's state headquarters in Lucknow.The 47 Assembly segments that were won by the SP in 2017 and the seven seats where by-elections are scheduled to be held on November 3, are exempted from this process and applications for these constituencies will not be accepted, said party spokesman Rajendra Chaudhary.This, party sources said, implies that almost all the sitting MLAs of the party will be re-nominated for the next Assembly polls.Meanwhile, the decision of the party to invite applications from aspiring candidates, has put those sitting MLAs of other parties who were planning to switch over to the SP for the next elections in a dilemma.A two-term BJP MLA, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, "It is difficult for me at this stage to join the SP because that would deprive me of my Assembly membership and there is still a one-and-a-half-year term left. I will have to negotiate with the SP leaders and then decide what is to be done. There are more than a dozen sitting MLAs from various parties who want to contest the 2022 elections on the SP ticket."Meanwhile, the SP has already revamped its party organisation and the frontal units Akhilesh Yadav has been working during the lockdown, connecting with party workers virtually."The party is busy consolidating the organisation at the booth level and party president has asked leaders and workers to connect to the people at the grassroots level and understand and address their problems," said Chaudhary.The Samajwadi Party has already announced its decision to go it alone in the next Assembly elections though it may opt for seat adjustment with smaller parties.In the ongoing by-elections for seven Assembly segments, the party has left the Bulandshahr seat for the Rashtriya Lok Dal. Akhilesh has already announced that he would leave the Jaswantnagar seat for uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav.The Samajwadi Party which had won 224 seats in the 403-member Assembly in 2012, had suffered major reverses in the 2017 Assembly elections. The party lost 177 sitting seats and could manage to win only 47 seats.( With inputs from IANS )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

Peoples' Democratic PartyFOLLOW

Peoples' democratic party, Latest News

Former Bhutan Prime Minister and People's Democratic Party President Tshering Tobgay on Wednesday expressed "profound gratitude" to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for gifting COVID-19 vaccines to the country. ...

Peoples Conference, which is headed by Sajad Gani Lone, has pulled out of the Peoples Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) on Tuesday. ...

Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chief, Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday said that her party's youth wing president Waheed-ur-Rehman Para has been detained after granted bail by an NIA court. ...

Shiv Sena has mentioned it earlier as well that Uniform Civil Code should be implemented in India, said Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Wednesday while adding that if the Centre brings something like that, then his party will take a decision about it ...

After the Centre on Tuesday notified land laws, paving the way for any citizen of India to buy land in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, People's Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti on Tuesday said that it is another step that's part of governmen ...

Ved Mahajan, who resigned from the People's Democratic Party (PDP) on Monday said that the national flag is his pride and he was hurt with party chief Mehbooba Mufti's statement. ...

Several Shiv Sena Dogra Front (SSDF) activists on Saturday took to streets in Jammu staging a protest against former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti's remark that she will only raise the Indian tricolour after the flag of the erstwhile state of Jammu a ...

Lucknow, Oct 19 The Samajwadi Party has started preparing for the 2022 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. Party President ... ...