The Bahujan Samaj Party’s (BSP) announcement of probable candidates on seven Lok Sabha seats in Western Uttar Pradesh hints at renewed attempts by the Dalit centric party to consolidate its Muslim support in the U.P. With five of the seven announced names hailing from the Muslim community, the party seemingly hopes to revive the old Dalit-Muslim social alliance, which is considered a winnable combination in many seats in the region.
With this move, the party also likely intends to nullify the Samajwadi Party (SP)-Congress gameplan of making the 2024 election a bi-polar election.
The BSP had announced that Irfan Saifi from Moradabad, Muhahid Hussain from Amroha, Anish Ahmed Khan from Pilibhit, Majid Ali from Saharanpur, Akil Ahmed Patta from Kannauj (which falls in the State’s central-western region), Chaudhary Vijendra Singh from Bijnor, and Dara Singh Prajapati from Muzaffarnagar are the party’s potential candidates in the region.
