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Lucknow: Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) chief and former minister in Yogi Adityanath government Om Prakash Rajbhar on Friday hinted at renewing the party’s alliance with the BJP, but with certain conditions.
At a press conference, Rajbhar listed several conditions, including waiver of electricity bills and prohibition of alcohol, that would prompt him to forge an alliance with the BJP for the upcoming 2022 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.
“They should first accept the report of the Social Justice Committee. If they are ready to provide free education till post graduation, waiving domestic electricity bill, prohibition of liquor, limit of police, weekly leave to police force, police to home guards, then we will form an alliance. them,” he said.
“Mohan Bhagwat” Yes They have been raising the issue of prohibition but the governments do not listen to them. I had gone to the BJP with these demands. It is about the interests of the people and not my personal matters. The report of the Social Justice Committee prepared for two years and 10 months is gathering dust. So I resigned from the post of minister in protest (in 2019),” he said.
Rajbhari was referring to In a report submitted by a social justice committee set up by the Uttar Pradesh government in 2019 for the distribution of reservations among the state’s most backward communities under retired High Court Justice Raghavendra Singh.
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Last Rajbhar-BJP alliance
Rajbhar’s SBSP contested the 2017 Uttar Pradesh election with the BJP and was appointed as a cabinet minister. However, he was expelled In 2019, after months of heated exchanges between the two sides.
After his expulsion, Rajbhar formed the ‘Bhagidar Sankalp Morcha’, a coalition of regional parties, including Asaduddin Owaisi’s party All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and Chandra Shekhar Azad-led Azad Samaj Party.
“Bhagidari Sankalp Morcha was formed on the basis of various issues in the society. Whichever party will accept those issues, we will go with them. The final announcement on the matter will be made in the scheduled rally to be held in Mau district on October 27.
Meanwhile, Owaisi had announced in June that his party would contest 100 seats in the upcoming UP elections in alliance with the Partnership Sankalp Morcha.
However, Rajbhar had said that the seat-sharing formula among the Morcha members has not been decided yet.
(Edited by Rachel John)
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