BSP names candidates for Rae Bareli, Lucknow Lok Sabha polls
Friday October 26, 2012 06:50:33 PM,
IANS
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Lucknow: Even as
political pundits keep on speculating over the love-hate
relationship between the BSP and the Congress, the former has
decided to field a candidate for the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat in
the 2014 general elections - making clear its intention to keep a
safe distance from the UPA.
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which provides outside support to
the Congress-led UPA government at the centre, has decided to
field Ram Lakhan Pasi, a former state government official, from
Rae Bareli - a bastion of UPA chairperson and Congress president
Sonia Gandhi.
The decision to field Pasi, a Dalit, was announced by the BSP's
senior leaders late Thursday after a meeting with party workers in
Rae Bareli.
The BSP's move is in sharp contrast to the benevolence of the
Samajwadi party (SP) that too bailed out the Congress-led minority
United Progressive Alliance after the Mamata Banerjee-led
Trinamool Congress pulled out from the central government.
A few weeks ago, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav
announced that his party would not field its candidate from Rae
Bareli, from where the Congress president is likely to contest yet
again.
The SP's decision, he said, was to reciprocate the "goodwill"
gesture shown by the Congress by not fielding its candidate
against his daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav when she contested the
Lok Sabha bypoll from Kannauj in June.
BSP national general secretary Naseemuddin Siddiqui said the party
was very serious about the upcoming polls and was "working on" the
important constituency of Rae Bareli.
In the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, the BSP's R.S. Kushwaha had polled
over a lakh votes and had come a distant second.
The BSP Friday also announced its candidate for the Lucknow Lok
Sabha seat - a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bastion earlier held
by former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Nakul Dubey, the former urban development minister in the Mayawati
government, would be contesting the election from Lucknow. Dubey
contested the state assembly polls this year from Bakshi Ka Talaab
constituency in Lucknow but lost to Gomti Yadav of the SP.
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