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Lucknow: When Samajwadi Get together president Akhilesh Yadav talked about “tit for tat response” to Madhya Pradesh fiasco on seat sharing with the Congress, and Kamal Nath got here up with ‘Akhilesh-Wakhilesh’ jibe in response, it appeared extra of a ‘political posturing’ between them than anything.
A fortnight later, the trade of barbs between the 2 has solely intensified and gone past the meeting polls, prompting the architects of INDIA bloc to ‘wait and watch’ the developments with their fingers crossed.
It was not solely concerning the face off between SP and Congress in Madhya Pradesh. On Thursday, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar – a founding member of the INDIA bloc – held the Congress chargeable for lack of progress in getting ready INDIA bloc for the Lok Sabha polls.
He mentioned the Congress was too busy with state elections. Earlier, a day after SP-Congress face-off over alliance in MP, Nitish’s get together – Janata Dal (United) – named 5 candidates for MP elections. That Akhilesh is thought to have good relations with Nitish and his deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav, is one other matter.
In political circles, developments within the final fortnight are being seen as noteworthy as they forged a shadow on the cohesiveness amongst INDIA companions. “If politics is about notion, the conduct of necessary constituents of INDIA bloc shouldn’t be projecting an excellent image in public. With Lok Sabha elections barely six months away, individuals won’t simply neglect the bitterness that’s prevailing amongst opposition alliance companions. And BJP, like some other political opponent, won’t let the voter neglect it,” a political analyst mentioned.
In UP, the state of affairs is extra noticeable. After the SP-Congress break-up in MP, Akhilesh went public a few message from the “Congress’s tallest chief” that the INDIA alliance was just for Lok Sabha polls.
“Now that such a senior chief has mentioned one thing, I must settle for it,” he had mentioned. This announcement gave an impression that the 2 events will put up a united face thereafter on all boards besides the meeting elections.
Nevertheless, the sequence of occasions which have unfolded thereafter has as soon as once more left everybody guessing if all is nicely between the 2 most necessary constituents of INDIA bloc, a minimum of in UP. The most recent within the sequence is SP nationwide common secretary and three-time Lok Sabha member from Lakhimpur Kheri, Ravi Prakash Verma, resigning from SP amid claims that he’ll be part of the Congress in Lucknow on Monday.
The switchover would have been seen as ‘poaching’ had SP and Congress not been part of INDIA alliance.
It could haven’t shocked many as altering loyalties forward of elections is widespread. What has raised the eyebrows within the Akhilesh camp was how Congress leaders in UP are reaching out to SP leaders. A working example was UPCC chief Ajay Rai visiting Sitapur jail to fulfill SP’s Muslim face Azam Khan.
UPCC chief visited the jail regardless of permission being denied a day prematurely and Azam himself having refused to fulfill him, it appeared extra of a political gimmick.
SP reacted strongly to it saying that outdated Congressmen are complainant in a lot of the FIRs towards Azam. He’s in jail alongside together with his spouse and son following their conviction in pretend beginning certificates case. Rai additionally rubbed the SP the unsuitable means when he visited their chief who took unwell throughout Akhilesh’s cycle rally held lately and later died. Visiting the bereaved household, Rai accused the SP chief of being “insensitive”.
Within the newest improvement, Akhilesh mentioned that the Congress and the BJP have widespread rules and accused Congress chief Kamal Nath of talking BJP’s language in MP. This was adopted by a tweet of a SP spokesperson IB Singh the place he talked concerning the BJP-led NDA authorities on the Centre dealing with Robert Vadra’s corruption case with ‘child gloves’ and questioning if the Congress and BJP have reached any understanding.
It isn’t solely about senior SP leaders. Throughout the lately held state government assembly chaired by Akhilesh and within the presence of Shivpal Yadav and Ram Gopal Yadav, some get together leaders brazenly maintained that seat sharing with the Congress in UP would solely profit the latter prefer it had in 2019 Lok Sabha elections and in 2022 meeting polls.
One other chief from the area, who was current on the government committee assembly, later instructed TOI that out of twenty-two candidates fielded by the Congress on 28 seats of West UP, as many as 21 misplaced deposits. “In 2022 meeting polls, Congress misplaced its safety deposit in 387 of the 399 seats it contested and gained solely two seats. They bought 2.4% of the overall votes which was decrease than that of SP ally RLD’s 2.9% which contested on simply 33 seats,” he mentioned.