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Kauriram by-poll an acid test for SP
WITH EIGHT days left for the polling, campaigning for the by-election in Kauriram assembly segment has picked up momentum. Bharatiya Janata Party MP Yogi Adityanath is orgnising public meetings in support of party candidate Shital Pandey and SP leaders are leaving no stone unturned to ensure the success of party candidate Rambhual Nishad.
WITH EIGHT days left for the polling, campaigning for the by-election in Kauriram assembly segment has picked up momentum.
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Yogi Adityanath is orgnising public meetings in support of party candidate Shital Pandey and SP leaders are leaving no stone unturned to ensure the success of party candidate Rambhual Nishad. The Samajwadi Party has constituted an 11-member committee to tackle the election campaign in favour of its candidate Rambhual Nishad. The troika of three senior leaders of the SP, including state minister Jaiprakash Yadav, MLC Ganesh Shanker Pandey and district unit president of the party Chandrabali Yadav had pitched in to ensure the victory of the party candidate in the zila panchayat chairperson’s election and the by-election in Kauriram is likely to be an acid test for them.
Launching their offensive against Adityanath, the SP leaders said that after communal tension in the city area, the BJP MP had planned to divide the society on religious lines in Kauriram. They appealed to the people to sideline such divisive forces for the sake of peace, prosperity and communal harmony.
The Bahujan Samaj Party has not fielded its candidate in this election and the Bharatiya Janata Party has suffered a major jolt by rebel candidate Upendra Dutt Shukla. The apathetic attitude of the Congress has paved the way for a direct contest between the official BJP candidate Shital Pandey and SP candidate Rambhual Nishad.
Talking to mediapersons, former district president and rebel BJP candidate Upendra Dutt Shukla expressed his anguish and said for the last 27 years he had been serving the party but in this election, the rejection of his candidature was insulting to him.
Levelling serious charges against BJP MP Yogi Adityanath, Shukla said his party ticket was withdrawn under pressure mounted on senior leaders by Adityanath.
Listing his priorities and programmes for the assembly segment, he said a girls’ Degree College in between Nausarh and Kauriram and a girls’ degree college at Khorabar would be on his priority list.
Meanwhile, district unit president of BJP Harish Chand Pandey said that the party would take disciplinary action against Upendra Dutt Shukla who had not withdrawn his nomination papers despite appeal by senior party leaders. Pandey admitted that he was among those who had accompanied Shukla while he was filing his nomination.
