Mayawati wants to make Harit Pradesh, in western Uttar Pradesh, a state

Chief of the Bahujan Samaj Pary (BSP), Mayawati, made a significant pronouncement on the birth anniversary of her ideology, Dr. BR Ambedkar, choosing to provide statehood to western Uttar Pradesh and create an Allahabad High Court bench in the area should she be elected to power at the center.

During a Muzaffarnagar electoral rally, the leader of the BSP brought up the long-standing “Harit Pradesh” topic once again. Notably, Dr. Ambedkar was the one who suggested splitting Uttar Pradesh into three parts (Western, Central, and Eastern) in order to improve administration.

In a scathing attack on the bitter rival Samajwadi Party (SP), she said that while the SP was in power, communal harmony and fraternity were lost in western Uttar Pradesh, whereas during BSP administration, there was never a communal uprising in the region.

The leader of the BSP attacked the Congress and the BJP for their policies that benefit large corporations and capitalists. She remarked, “These parties’ development agendas don’t include Dalits, tribal people, or the underprivileged.”

Notably, the BSP is contesting the elections on its own, maintaining a similar distance from both the government and opposition blocs. She has selected Dara Singh Prajapati to run against Sanjeev Balyan of the BJP, who is running for a third term in the seat, and Harendra Mallik of the SP, a well-known Jat politician and former MP.

Beginning her party’s campaign earlier, Mayawati said that the incumbent BJP would find it difficult to regain power due to the discrepancy between their promises and actions. Saharanpur is the first parliamentary seat that the BSP won in 2019.

She said that the BJP was serving the interests of the powerful and misleading the populace.

SP fields minister tarnished by NHRM scam

Unexpectedly, the Samajwadi Party (SP) announced on Sunday that Babu Singh Kushwaha, the leader of the Jan Adhikar Party and a former minister, will run for the Lok Sabha seat of Jaunpur under the Samajwadi Party’s emblem. Together with Kushwaha, the SP also revealed the identities of six other candidates: Laxmikant, also known as Pappu Nishad, from Sant Kabir Nagar; Ramashanker Rajbhar from Salempur; Amarnath Maurya from Phulpur; Ram Shiromani Verma from Shravasti; and Supriya Saroj from Machlishaher Lok Sabha seat.