“Akhilesh Doesn’t Want Dalit Support”: Bhim Army Boss’ No To UP Alliance

Lucknow:

Bhim Military chief Chandrashekhar Azad mentioned Saturday that his political outfit – the Azad Samaj Occasion – wouldn’t ally with the Samajwadi Occasion for subsequent month’s Uttar Pradesh Meeting election.

Samajwadi chief Akhilesh Yadav “doesn’t need the help of Dalits”, Mr Azad advised reporters.

“Yesterday Akhileshji humiliated us… yesterday Akhileshji humiliated the ‘bahujan samaj‘,” Chandrashekhar Azad mentioned, a day after assembly the Samajwadi Occasion chief to debate seat-sharing.

Sources have advised NDTV Akhilesh Yadav provided the Azad Samaj Occasion three seats, however Chandrashekhar Azad was asking for 10 seats and a center floor couldn’t be established.

Forward of the UP election (the seven-phase ballot begins February 10), Akhilesh Yadav has emerged as maybe the most important challenger to the ruling BJP.

Mr Yadav has spurned assist from bigger events just like the Congress and stitched collectively a “rainbow” alliance of regional outfits, corresponding to Omprakash Rajbhar’s Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Occasion (which signed up with the Samajwadi Occasion final 12 months) and Jayant Chaudhary’s Rashtriya Lok Dal.

He has additionally poached BJP leaders with appreciable affect over the OBC vote base, together with (to date) two ministers in Swami Prasad Maurya and Dharam Singh Saini, who joined his celebration yesterday.

In 2017 the BJP’s technique was to win over the non-Yadav OBC castes given Mr Yadav’s most loyal voters are seen to be Yadavs and Muslims. This time spherical, the Samajwadi Occasion chief’s game-plan is to emulate the success by pulling within the non-Yadav OBC leaders.

Akhilesh Yadav advised NDTV in November {that a} “pincer” motion of offended farmers (upset over the now-scrapped farm legal guidelines) within the west and a “rainbow alliance” of regional events within the east would “wipe out the BJP” within the election.

UP will vote in seven phases from February 10, with outcomes due precisely one month later – March 10.