PREPARATIONS SP, BJP INTENSIFY FOR UP ASSEMBLY BYPOLLS

BJPand SP areramping up their campaigns, with BJP deploying 30 ministers and 15 senior leaders, while SP assigns Milkipur seat to Awdhesh Prasad.

- TIKAM SHARMA

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Samajwadi Party (SP) have in tensified their efforts for the upcoming by-elections for 10 vacant assembly seats in the Uttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha. Both, the BJP-led NDA and the SP-led I.N.D.I Alliance are aiming to secure as many of these seats as possible.

The Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government in Uttar Pradesh has assigned 30 ministers and 15 senior leaders as caretakers for the 10 Assembly seats set to undergo by-elections in the coming month, coinciding with the Assembly elections in Haryana, Jharkhand, and Maharashtra. Their role is to address any unresolved issues and secure the party’s victory. The ministers are responsible for addressing administrative grievances in these constituencies, while the senior party leaders are tasked with motivating the dissatisfied party members and workers who remained inactive during the Lok Sabha elections for various reasons.

Similar to the BJP, its main opposition in the state, SP, along with its ally Congress, has also intensified efforts to replicate their strong performance in the Lok Sabha elections in the UP by-polls. To achieve this, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav has appointed Faizabad MP Awdhesh Prasad as the in charge of the Milkipur Assembly seat, which Prasad himself vacated after being elected to the Lok Sabha, defeating BJP’s sitting MP Lallu Singh.