2024 Lok Sabha polls: Battle strains drawn as BJP units sights on Samajwadi Celebration fort Sambhal
From the medieval occasions to the trendy period, Sambhal in Rohilkhand area of West Uttar Pradesh has had a chequered historic previous.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the basis stone laying ceremony of the Shri Kalki Dham temple in Sambhal on February 19, 2024. (FILE PHOTO)
At varied occasions, it has been below the sway of Prithviraj Chauhan, Qutub-ud-din Aibak, Firoz Shah Tughlaq, Sikandar Lodi and the Mughals.
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With the appearance of democracy, new political equations have been written within the Sambhal Lok Sabha constituency, recognized for its bonecraft and wooden craft in addition to sugar industries.
After coming into existence in 1977, the Sambhal Lok Sabha constituency has produced a variety of winners – the Janata Celebration, Congress, Janata Dal, Bahujan Samaj Celebration, Samajwadi Celebration and the Bharatiya Janta Celebration.
Within the 2019 Lok Sabha election when the Modi wave swept the state, Samajwadi Celebration candidate Shafiqur Rehman Barq received the Sambhal seat, defeating BJP candidate Parameshvar Lal Saini by over 2 lakh votes. In 2014, the BJP received the seat for the primary time as its candidate Satyapal Singh Saini defeated Barq by a slender margin of over 5,000 votes in a fierce contest. The constituency has 22% Muslim, 21% Yadav and round 16% Dalit voters.
Now, the battle strains are drawn once more in Sambhal, which goes to polls within the third part of the Lok Sabha election on Might 7.
The Samajwadi Celebration has fielded Zia ur Rehman Barq, the get together MLA from Kundarki, after the demise of sitting MP Shafiqur Rehman Barq, the preliminary candidate. Regardless of his defeat in 2019, the BJP has reposed religion in Parameshvar Lal Saini, an OBC chief. The BSP has given the ticket to former Samajwadi Celebration MLA Shaulat Ali, setting the stage for a three-cornered contest.
The BJP has mobilised its cadre to breach the SP fort and high ruling get together leaders are campaigning within the constituency.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had laid the muse of Shri Kalki Dham temple on February 19. This, along with the help of influential Congress chief Acharya Pramod Krishnam’s help has boosted the morale of BJP employees.
BJP strategists hope the Hindutva card will win the help of the higher caste Brahmin, Rajput, Vaishya in addition to non Yadav OBC Gujjar, Lodh, Kurmi, Jat, Khagi and Dalits who collectively represent round 50% of the voters.
The Samajwadi Celebration is but to launch its marketing campaign within the constituency that was as soon as the pocket borough of the Yadav household. Samajwadi Celebration founder Mulayam Singh Yadav had received Sambhal seat twice within the 1998 and 1999 Lok Sabha election whereas nationwide basic secretary Ram Gopal Yadav bagged it in 2004.
This time, the SP hopes to retain the seat with the help of Yadav and Muslim voters. Samajwadi Celebration chief Akhilesh Yadav had visited the constituency after Barq’s demise.
Within the 1989 and 1991 Lok Sabha elections, Sripal Singh Yadav received the seat on the Janata Dal ticket. DP Yadav wrested the seat on the Bahujan Samaj Celebration ticket within the 1996 Lok Sabha election. In 2009, Shafiqur Rehman Barq stunned political analysts by profitable the election on the BSP ticket, defeating Iqbal Mehmood of the SP.
The BSP received the Sambhal seat twice within the 1996 and 2009 Lok Sabha election. This time, the get together is engaged on Dalit- Muslim formulation. BSP chief Mayawati has fielded Muslim candidates on a majority of the seats in Rohilkhand area to dent the INDIA bloc help base.
Together with Shaulat Ali from Sambhal, the BSP has fielded Majid Ali in Saharanpur, Dr Mujahid Hussain in Amroha, Mohammad Irfan Saifi in Moradabad, Zishan Khan in Rampur, Abid Ali in Aonla, and Anis Ahmad Khan aka Phool Babu in Pilibhit.
