Nw: PariWar in Uttar Pradesh: Politics challenges kind

(This memoir initially seemed in on Jan 23, 2022)

LUCKNOW: Is political water in any case thicker than blood? The UP assembly elections trust thrown up cases where variations in leanings within influential political families trust come out widely in the launch. So, whereas defection of SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav’s youthful daughter-in-legislation Aparna Yadav, his household – Hari Om Yadav and Pramod Gupta – to BJP hogged all of the limelight, cases of brewing schism within other political families are additionally conspicuous in the most trendy poll season.

The most trendy being the influential Shakya household in Auraiya. Right here, Riya Shakya — daughter of insurgent BJP MLA from Bidhuna Vinay Shakya, who converted to SP — will contest as a BJP candidate from her father’s constituency. Riya’s inclination towards BJP had turn out to be obvious on January 11 when she launched a video to trace her “staunch enhance” to the event whereas claiming that her uncle Devesh Shakya forcibly took her sick father to earn him be a half of SP.

This became the day when UP minister and BJP chief Swami Prasad Maurya revolted in opposition to the saffron outfit. Riya’s utter became, however, refuted by Vinay, who, in conjunction with Maurya, eventually joined SP on January 14. Riya’s rivals in the poll fight are liable to be either her father or uncle. SP is but to dispute its candidate from Bidhuna.

The political rift additionally hit the household of ragged Congress chief Imran Masood. Whereas Imran moved to SP, terming it because the most handy political event which can presumably well presumably pronounce the may perhaps presumably well presumably of BJP, his twin brother Noman Masood has crossed over to Maywati’s BSP and has even bought a mark to contest from Gangoh.

Noman had earlier joined RLD at the tip of farmers’ run in opposition to the new farm criminal guidelines. Every Imran and Noman had contested from Nakur and Gangoh assembly seats as Congress candidates in 2017 assembly elections. Imran lost to BJP’s Dharam Singh Saini, who has now defected to SP and has even bought a mark to contest from Nakur in the upcoming polls. Noman became defeated by BJP’s Pradeep Chaudhary.

So is the case with the household of Swami Prasad Maurya, whose daughter Sanghmitra Maurya dug in her heels and reposed religion in BJP and PM Modi. Sanghmitra, who is a BJP MP from Budaun, has been consistently taking to social media to laud the BJP and hashtagging “aayegi to BJP hi there” (BJP will come abet to energy).

The adaptations of conception additionally hit the household of BSP MP from Ambedkarnagar, Ritesh Pandey, earlier this month when his father and ragged BSP MP Rakesh Pandey defected to SP. Judicious to trust a take care of upper castes in Ambedkarnagar, Rakesh’s defection became considered as a well-known blow to Mayawati who has long gone abet to her tried and examined social engineering formulation of Dalit, Brahmin cohesion that propelled her to energy with absolute majority for the principle time in 2007.

Political consultants take under consideration this as a tag of “maturity of democracy”. “It’s a correct tag to acknowledge folk giving precedence to their political leanings and acting accordingly,” acknowledged Prof Ramesh Dixit, retired head of the political science department in Lucknow College.

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