With Samajwadi Party nominating old hand Pawan Pandey for the Ayodhya seat, all eyes are on the BJP, which is yet to name its candidate for the high-profile constituency, after discussions on Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath The party has fielded him from Gorakhpur Urban. Seat. The BSP and the Congress have also not yet revealed the names of their candidates, but the people here see this election as a direct fight between the SP and the BJP.
Akhilesh Yadav’s party on Tuesday night announced the candidature of former MLA Pandey on this seat. A promising youth leader of Lucknow University, Pandey had won the seat in 2012 but lost in 2017. He was also a minister in the Akhilesh Yadav government.
SP may have come out with the name of its candidate, but BJP supporters are still speculating whether it will be sitting MLA Ved Prakash Gupta or someone else. Like before, this time too Ayodhya is being used as a springboard by all the major parties to start the election campaign.
Says Suraj Kumar of Nayaghat, “There is resentment against the sitting MLA as he could not fulfill the aspirations of the people. If BJP changes its candidate, it will be beneficial. dashed,” he noted.
Asked about the anger prevailing among the traders, Ayodhya Vyapar Mandal President Nand Kumar Gupta said that shops need to be demolished to widen the road from Saadatganj to Ayodhya Ghat. “These shops are on the properties of Raja (Ayodhya) or temples. The shopkeepers here will not get any compensation. It is a matter of their livelihood as they have been here for the last three-four generations.”
As per the proposed plan, two stretches of road in Ayodhya Dham (old Ayodhya city) will be widened, including the road leading to the historic Hanuman Garhi temple. He said that traders are opposing the project as a large number of shops would be demolished for it.
Another major road extension is proposed on a 4.6 km stretch from Naya Ghat to Uday Crossing, where the road will be 24 feet wide (12 feet on either side of the divider). Another local trader said that the traders want it to be reduced to 20 feet. According to another businessman Janardan Pandey, apart from the anti-incumbency wave, another thing that is against the local BJP MLA is that despite being a business leader himself, he could not effectively raise the voice of his community before the government. .
Ram Manohar Lohia Avadh University student Rakesh Singh said that the BJP government has tried to show Ayodhya as a newly developed city, with an upcoming international airport, world-class railway station and several other projects under the Ramayana circuit. . “This is definitely something to be appreciated by everyone in Ayodhya. Who wouldn’t like the development of their city?” He asked.
Asked about the party’s chances of victory in Ayodhya, BJP supporter Ashish Kumar, who came to pay obeisance at Hanuman Garhi temple, said, “The BJP leadership should be aware of the ground reality. Whoever is our (BJP) candidate, he will definitely win. Voting will be held in the fifth phase on February 27 in the Ayodhya assembly constituency. The seat was held by BJP’s Lallu Singh, who is now a party MP, in 1991, 1993, 1996. , 2002, 2007. However, he tasted defeat in 2012 at the hands of Pawan Pandey of SP.
In the Ayodhya constituency, 13-15 per cent are Brahmins and Yadavs and 18-20 per cent are Muslims.
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