With by-elections to be held in nine assembly seats in UP, the political temperature across the state has risen. In these by-elections, the NDA bet on the OBC, while the SP played the PDA card. SP chief Akhilesh said PDA cards will be used in UP.
The Samajwadi Party once again played the Radical Awami League card in these by-elections, fielding Muslim candidates in four of the nine seats, namely Phulpur, Kundalki, Sissamao and Mira In Phule, two seats are occupied by Dalit candidates and three seats are occupied by OBC candidates.
Apart from this, SP also tried the Ayodhya route in Ghaziabad. The way he pitted Dalits against Awadesh Prasad from Faizabad seat in the Lok Sabha elections. Similarly, Dalit faces are also depicted in Ghaziabad.
SP performs weakly in Ghaziabad Sadar seat
The SP considers the weakest seat to be Ghaziabad Sadar as the SP has never won this seat. So Akhilesh Yadav has fielded Singh Raj Jatav of the Jatav community as the candidate here and made every effort to focus the election Put on the Dalit-Muslim equation in Ghaziabad. Meanwhile, the BSP has fielded representatives from the Vaishya community in this seat.
The SP tried to hold elections in the name of PDA and succeeded in winning as many seats as possible, but if there is no possibility of winning any seat, then a message must be sent to the Dalits and backward classes in that seat.
Similarly, Charu Kain, who recently joined the Samajwadi Party from Congress, has emerged as the candidate for the reserved Khel seat in Aligarh. Just a few weeks ago, Charu Kain left the BSP and joined the Congress. In fact, Charu is from Jatav community but now she belongs to Jat community. Hence, India Block attempts to solve the equation between Jatavs and Jats.
NDA issues tickets to 6 Dalits and OBCs
On the other hand, RLD has also announced its candidate for its lone seat, Meerapur. RLD has put forward Mithlesh Pal as its candidate. Meanwhile, the BJP-RLD alliance gave 6 out of 9 seats to Dalits and Backward Classes and 3 seats to Brahmin and Thakur faces.
The contest is going to be interesting this time, Akhilesh Yadav calls it PDA vs BJP and this time the BJP is fighting the entire election with OBC at the center.
