WHY IS BJP’S SEAT EQUATION UNSOLVED & STUCK IN UP?

Lucknow: In Uttar Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party has announced an alliance with its two allies, but the seat-sharing deliberations have not happened yet. Even though elections can be announced any day now, despite this, seat allocation has not been done so far. It is being said that BJP has kept silent due to the demand for seats of both the allies. This time the BJP has tied up with the Nishad Party, whose leaders Sanjay Nishad and Praveen Nishad like to haggle much. Their status is higher than that of Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party leader Omprakash Rajbhar, who left the alliance. It may be recalled that the Nishad father-son duo defeated Yogi Adityanath in Gorakhpur seat. After becoming the Chief Minister, Yogi had left the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat and when the by-election was held, Praveen Nishad had challenged on behalf of SP and won the election. After that BJP took the initiative and took Nishad fatherson with them and fought with their alliance in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

That is why Nishad Party is bargaining more, asking for more seats. Interestingly, last time in 2017 the Nishad Party had fought on 72 seats alone and won only 1 seat. The BJP wants the Nishad Party to fight on the same number of seats it had given to Rajbhar’s party in the last election. In the last election, Rajbhar’s party was given eight seats by the BJP, out of which it won four.

This time BJP wants to give an almost similar number of seats to Nishad Party but Nishad father and son duo are not ready for it. Another BJP ally, Anupriya Patel’s Apna Dal, had fought on 11 seats last time and won nine. This time she wants to fight on at least 15 seats. The BJP had left a total of 19 seats in the alliance last time, while this time there is pressure on it to leave 30 seats