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Rajbhar Accuses Akhilesh Yadav of Betraying UP Poll Pact
Om Prakash Rajbhar leads a political party called the SBSP.
He says Akhilesh Yadav's party did not stick to an agreement about election seats.
Rajbhar said the SP was supposed to give his party 16 seats but ran its own candidates in 12 of them.
He also said two SBSP legislators have been close to the SP since they won their elections.
Their choices in the upcoming Rajya Sabha election are being watched.
Rajbhar also spoke about changes in the Congress party's Uttar Pradesh team.
He said Imran Masood should ask Congress leaders to name a Muslim as the party's chief ministerial candidate in the state.
The article does not include a response from Akhilesh Yadav or Congress to Rajbhar's remarks.
SBSP president Om Prakash Rajbhar accused Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav of breaking an arrangement over Uttar Pradesh Assembly seats.
Rajbhar said the SP was given 16 seats in name but fielded 12 of its own candidates.
He said SBSP MLAs Abbas Ansari and Jagdish Narayan Rai had remained associated with the SP since winning their seats, though they contested using the SBSP symbol.
The remarks come before Rajya Sabha elections, where voting by the two SBSP legislators has drawn attention.
Rajbhar also commented on Congress's Uttar Pradesh organisation changes and urged Imran Masood to press for a Muslim chief ministerial candidate.
- Who
- Om Prakash Rajbhar, president of the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party, made the remarks about Akhilesh Yadav and also commented on Congress.
- What
- Rajbhar accused Akhilesh Yadav of betraying an election-seat arrangement and discussed SBSP legislators' ties to the SP.
- Where
- Uttar Pradesh, India.
- When
- Ahead of the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections; the article also says Congress announced Uttar Pradesh unit changes on October 2.
- Why
- Rajbhar said Akhilesh Yadav fielded SP candidates despite an arrangement that Rajbhar said allocated 16 seats to the SBSP.
Key facts
- Speaker
- Om Prakash Rajbhar, SBSP national president
- Accused
- Akhilesh Yadav, Samajwadi Party chief
- Seat arrangement claim
- Rajbhar said the SBSP was given 16 seats in name, while the SP fielded 12 of its own candidates.
- SBSP legislators mentioned
- Abbas Ansari and Jagdish Narayan Rai
- Election context
- Upcoming Rajya Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh
- Congress appointments
- Aradhana Misra ‘Mona’ was named state Congress president and Imran Masood working president.
- Congress announcement date
- October 2; the article does not specify a year.
Quotes
Om Prakash Rajbhar
National president of the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party
“He’s not the boss; Sonia Gandhi is the boss. We’ll tell him to tell his party leader to declare a Muslim as the Chief Ministerial candidate in UP. We’ll say that Muslims voted for Congress for a long time, so he should also declare a Muslim as the Chief Minister.”
thehansindia.com
“Akhilesh Yadav has betrayed us. He gave us 16 seats in name, but fielded 12 of his own candidates. These are his own people. They have been carrying the Samajwadi Party flag since the elections.”
thehansindia.com
Sources
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