LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh BJP chief Bhupendra Chaudhary on Sunday said that his party was “well positioned” to register a win in Rampur assembly seat which is set to go in for a by-poll after falling vacant following disqualification of SP MLA Azam Khan who recently got convicted by a local MP-MLA court in a 2019 hate speech case.
Speaking to TOI, Chaudhary shrugged off the narrative that Rampur continued to be a “bastion” of the Samajwadi Party or Azam Khan, who has, otherwise, been representing the seat since 1980. The UP BJP president said that his observation was driven by the fact that Yogi Adityanath government “never discriminated” against Rampur in terms of development and growth. “That was the most vital reason behind BJP’s victory in the Rampur Lok Sabha by elections held earlier this year,” he said.
