The Samajwadi Party has announced that it will contest all 70 assembly seats in the upcoming Uttarakhand assembly elections due early next year. The party has already started taking feedback from its workers and district unit office bearers in order to shortlist probable and deserving candidates.
Earlier, the Bahujan Samaj Party, Uttarakhand Kranti Dal and Aam Aadmi Party had also announced their intention of contesting all the 70 seats.
According to Uttarakhand state in-charge and national spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary, the Samajwadi Party will position itself as a viable, reliable and development-oriented political option for the voters in the hill state. The Samajwadi Party is currently keeping itself busy with party workers, booth management, membership drives and is also organising district headquarters, tehsil, block and panchayat level meetings.
In both Kumaon and Garhwal divisions, the SP in the coming days will hold conventions and chalk out poll strategy with senior party leaders and organisational office bearers to address the party workers.
“What has BJP done for Uttarakhand, apart from changing 3 chief ministers in four and half years? Mahakumbh fake testing scam, factionalism within the party, differences among cabinet ministers and legislators, corruption and lucrative poll announcements by current CM Pushkar Singh Dhami are some of them. Just less than five months are left but CM Dhami is making announcements which will leave the state exchequer in debt,” said Chaudhary, who is a former UP cabinet minister.
Meanwhile, BJP district president Jaypal Singh Chauhan, on the Samajwadi Party’s election focus, said that in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi party is afraid of CM Yogi Adityanath while in Uttarakhand it is afraid of Pushkar Singh Dhami owing to his popularity, corruption-free governance and mass appeal of both the CMs.“Even if they get 70 deserving candidates it will be a herculean task to win a single assembly seat. In the past 21 years of state formation with four assembly elections held so far, they haven’t won a single seat. So, claims are easy to make. But the fact is, Samajwadi party has no base in the state,” said the BJP district president.
Congress state vice president Suryakant Dhasmana said voters have already made up their mind to bring Congress back to power in Uttarakhand. “There is no scope of any other party becoming a political option for voters barring Congress in the state,” he said.
