Mar 14, 2018 14:03:17 (IST)
UP By-Election Results 2018: Samajwadi Party Workers Raise Slogans Of 'Bhua-Bhateeja Zindabad' As Lead Over BJP Increases
Watch Video: Samajwadi Party workers celebrate in Lucknow by raising slogans of 'Bhua-Bhateeja zindabad' as trends show their candidates leading by comfortable margins both in Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha constituencies.
Mayawati, the Dalit powerhouse in the Uttar Pradesh, has not fielded a candidate. Her workers have asked the sizeable Dalit community to vote for the Samajwadi candidates, though she has not committed to a bigger partnership, waiting to see how the experiment works. The present arrangement, she has insisted, is an "agreement" not an "alliance." Regional heavyweights and arch-rivals Samajwadi Party and Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party have pooled resources to take on the BJP in Gorakhpur and Phulpur in what is seen as an experiment to test the ground for a larger alliance for the 2019 national election.
Watch Video: Samajwadi Party workers celebrate in Lucknow by raising slogans of 'Bhua-Bhateeja zindabad' as trends show their candidates leading by comfortable margins both in Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha constituencies.
Mayawati, the Dalit powerhouse in the Uttar Pradesh, has not fielded a candidate. Her workers have asked the sizeable Dalit community to vote for the Samajwadi candidates, though she has not committed to a bigger partnership, waiting to see how the experiment works. The present arrangement, she has insisted, is an "agreement" not an "alliance." Regional heavyweights and arch-rivals Samajwadi Party and Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party have pooled resources to take on the BJP in Gorakhpur and Phulpur in what is seen as an experiment to test the ground for a larger alliance for the 2019 national election.
SP workers celebrate in Lucknow as trends show their candidates leading in Gorakhpur & Phulpur Lok Sabha by-polls, raise, 'Bhua-Bhateeja zindabad' slogans. pic.twitter.com/BTjievOjTL
- ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) March 14, 2018