![]() ![]() The abbreviation has over the years meant the ‘Muslim-Yadav’ combine that SP founder the late Mulayam Singh Yadav put together to hold power. Phool Bano, the first Muslim woman to win the election to the Chilkana nagar panchayat chief’s post in Saharanpur on a BJP ticket, praised the new MY factor in the state. To those who kept misleading Muslims all along, the results are an eye opener,” said deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya. “I have no doubt that this win sets the stage for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. “AIMIM (All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen), the party of Asaduddin Owaisi, whose candidate at one point was leading the mayoral contest in Meerut and eventually finished second ahead of the SP and BSP, too experimented in these urban local body polls,” said Ilmi. That is the reason why the BSP’s decision to field many Muslims in mayoral contests was seen by the SP as an attempt to scatter the minority vote to the BJP’s advantage. Muslims account for almost a fifth of the state’s population, and most backed the SP in the 2022 state assembly elections. “It is clear that ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP will use its growing penetration in Rampur or the victories of about 60 (Muslim) candidates in local polls to make a case for itself among the country’s biggest and most influential minority group,” said Irshad Ilmi, a political expert. Now, the BJP ally’s win in Suar has its own meaning. ![]() In December 2022, the BJP won for the first time the Rampur (Sadar) assembly seat that had been electing SP’s Muslim face Azam Khan or his family for decades. In June 2022, the BJP won the Azamgarh and Rampur Lok Sabha bypolls in these Muslim dominated constituencies, wresting the seats from the SP. Both were won by BJP ally Apna Dal (Sonelal). Malik was referring to the fact that along with urban local body polls, the results of two assembly by-polls to Suar seat in Rampur and Chhanbey seat in Mirzapur were also announced. So, in a way we have now found new campaigners in places where we hardly mattered before,” said Javed Malik, the BJP’s minority wing chief in west UP. Since June 2022, you would have noticed how citadels of vote banks have fallen from Azamgarh to Rampur. Now, with 2024 in sight, these candidates whose ‘MY’ (Modi-Yogi) narrative found favour with the masses, are going to be part of our campaign in the Lok Sabha polls. “In many places where we haven’t won, the candidates have come second. civic polls 2023: ‘Muslims changed voting trend, used discretion this time’ About a 60 of them have won.Īlso read | U.P. Most contested in places such as Qazipura in Ballia where the BJP had never contested before. The majority of its 395 Muslim candidates were ‘pasmandas’. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) fielded an unusually high number of Muslim candidates for the same, 11 out of 17 for the mayoral polls.įor the BJP, the focus on Muslim candidates is actually part of a national outreach to ‘pasmandas’ or backward class Muslims. Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav decided to join the civic poll campaign, something he hasn’t done before and his party did not name a single Yadav candidate for the mayoral contests. (ANI)įor instance, chief minister Yogi Adityanath held 50 rallies in 13 days and his party, the BJP, experimented with the biggest batch of Muslim candidates to be ever fielded in any UP local election (395). Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath celebrates BJP’s victory in the civic body polls at the state party office in Lucknow on Saturday. The Uttar Pradesh urban local body polls, the results of which were declared on Saturday – the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the mayoral polls – were used by all major political parties to experiment and test the mood of the urban voters before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in which Uttar Pradesh with 80 seats is expected to play a key part. ![]()
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