President of Samajwadi Party and former Chief Minister of UP, Akhilesh Yadav Before the presidential election, an important meeting of the MPs and MLAs of his party has been called. A meeting has been called at the Samajwadi Party headquarters in Lucknow. In this meeting, Akhilesh Yadav will hold a discussion and brainstorming session to garner maximum votes for Yashwant Sinha, the opposition’s presidential candidate from UP.
The Samajwadi Party and its allies including RLD and SBSP together have 125 MLAs while the party has five MPs in the Rajya Sabha. At present, there are three Samajwadi Party MPs in the Lok Sabha. By-elections are being held in two seats, if the SP wins, then there will be five MPs in the Lok Sabha as well.
According to the voting pattern in the presidential election, the value of an MLA in UP is 208 and that of an MP is 700. Thus the value of MLAs of SP with allies is around 26000, not including the value of MPs. It is the responsibility of Akhilesh Yadav to get Yashwant Sinha maximum votes from the opposition because there is good relationship between SP and Trinamool Congress and Yashwant Sinha is the leader of Trinamool Congress. Not only this, Yashwant Sinha also has good relations with Akhilesh Yadav and he had also come to the SP headquarters some time back.
This is the reason why Akhilesh Yadav has become active for Yashwant Sinha. The real challenge for the SP is also that there should be complete solidarity of its MLAs and there should be no cross voting. In the last presidential election, some SP MLAs supported the NDA candidate. Since the voting is secret, it is not possible to ascertain who voted for whom.
The BJP-led NDA has declared Draupadi Murmu as its candidate for the post of President. National Democratic Alliance candidate for President Draupadi Murmu calls on PM Narendra Modi on Thursday. Voting for the presidency will take place on July 18. The term of current President Ram Nath Kovind ends on July 24.
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