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LUCKNOW: After dealing with a rout within the lately concluded UP Meeting election regardless of having taken its tally to 111 from 47, Samajwadi Birthday celebration leader Akhilesh Yadav has performed his playing cards in Rajya Sabha polls sensibly following a three-pronged strategy– of mollifying Azam Khan, cementing ties with RLD and conserving the minority neighborhood in excellent humour–with an eye fixed at the normal elections of 2024.
Significantly, within the final two normal elections—2014 and 2019—SP didn’t take its tally of MPs past 5 regardless of having stitched a grand alliance with arch-rival Bahujan Samaj Birthday celebration (BSP) in 2019.
Alternatively, the SP choices for the approaching Rajya Sabha elections, slated for June 10, mirror the approach to make SP’s combat extra tough in 2024. As according to the political pundits, by means of opting for Kapil Sibal, the Samajwadi Birthday celebration leader has attempted to mollify sulking Azam Khan, a senior birthday party chief and Rampur MLA, who have been languishing in prison for 27 months in reference to a sequence of circumstances.
Kapil Sibal represented Azam Khan in a dishonest case in Excellent Court docket and performed a the most important position in securing meantime bail for him resulting in his unencumber from Sitapur District Prison on Would possibly 20.
SP obliged Sibal who served a perfect jolt to Congress birthday party by means of quitting it in the midst of this month.
The choice of Jayant Chaudhury, too, has political connotations. But even so cementing the SP-RLD alliance additional within the wake of 2024 electoral struggle, the SP has attempted to woo the Jat citizens of western UP. Alternatively, the alliance was once there within the meeting polls as smartly however it will no longer reap the consequences on anticipated traces within the constituencies ruled by means of Jats.
The affect of the tie-up between the 2 events, seeking to capitalize at the extended farmers’ stir, was once restricted to Shamli, Meerut and Muzaffarnagar. Of the 113 seats which went to polls within the first two levels, principally in western UP, the BJP gained 78 seats and SP and RLD 45.
The SP insiders claimed that until the final second on Wednesday evening, Akhilesh’s spouse and previous MP, Dimple Yadav’s identify was once doing rounds because the birthday party candidate for Rajya Sabha. This disenchanted Jayant Chaudhury after he were given the message that he was once put out of the race. Jayant was once purportedly promised an RS seat by means of Akhilesh all the way through the UP meeting polls.
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Alternatively, sensing a possible danger to the alliance, the SP leader modified his choice and met the RLD MLAs on Thursday morning prior to pronouncing Jayant because the joint SP-RLD candidate for the higher space.
Extremely-placed SP assets additionally claimed that regardless that Akhilesh had promised to ship Jayant Chaudhary to the Rajya Sabha however that they had a war of words. Whilst Akhilesh Yadav sought after Jayant within the higher space as a Samajwadi Birthday celebration’s member, latter was once insisting on representing his personal birthday party RLD subsidized by means of the SP.
Fearing that BJP might woo Jayant prior to 2024, Akhilesh after all took the decision in his favour and declared him the Joint candidate of SP and RLD. Additionally, the 3rd candidate named by means of Akhilesh Yadav is Javed Ali Khan who has filed his nomination papers for the higher space.
“The verdict in favour of Javed Ali Khan additionally appears to be birthday party’s smartly concept out three-pronged process of mollifying Azam Khan, cementing tie-up with RLD and conserving the minority neighborhood in excellent humour for higher potentialities in 2024,” mentioned Prof AK Mishra, a political scientist.
It can be recalled that once consolidating in favour of SP within the 2022 polls, the minority neighborhood had no longer been proud of the SP management leading to a sequence of resignations by means of the Muslim leaders. Their primary chorus have been the guarded silence of the SP leader over alleged atrocities on Muslim leaders like Azam Khan and Mohammad Shahjeel.