Express News Service
LUCKNOW: All parties in UP have got into poll mode for the urban local body polls due this year. These polls gave a broad indication of the ground situation and are seen as the semi-final for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. However, the BJP and SP have to go through another litmus test at the bypoll to three crucial Assembly seats, including Mainpuri, Rampur and Khatauli, in the first week of December before going into the civic polls.
All the mainstream parties are gearing up to field the candidates in civic polls. While the ruling BJP, SP and Congress have started the process of identifying the probables by appointing in-charges in different districts, smaller players like Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) of OP Rajbhar and Shivpal Yadav of Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party are also getting ready to register their presence. Aam Aadmi Party is also preparing to fight the civic polls.
At present, the delimitation process of municipal wards is going on war footing and completed in 53 districts of the state till Saturday. In the remaining 22 districts, the process is ongoing with the urban development department giving final touches to the proposals received from those districts. Sources in the BJP said that the ruling party would contest the civic polls by fielding or supporting Muslim candidates in wards dominated minority community.
SP will contest the civic polls in alliance with Jayant Chaudhury-led Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD). A committee has been set up on the instructions of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav. On the other hand, the Congress party, which got a new state chief in Brijlal Khabri a month ago, is also preparing for the upcoming civic polls.
Litmus test for BJP, SPThe BJP and SP have to go through another litmus test at the bypoll to three crucial Assembly seats, including Mainpuri, Rampur and Khatauli, in the first week of December before going into the civic polls
LUCKNOW: All parties in UP have got into poll mode for the urban local body polls due this year. These polls gave a broad indication of the ground situation and are seen as the semi-final for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. However, the BJP and SP have to go through another litmus test at the bypoll to three crucial Assembly seats, including Mainpuri, Rampur and Khatauli, in the first week of December before going into the civic polls.
All the mainstream parties are gearing up to field the candidates in civic polls. While the ruling BJP, SP and Congress have started the process of identifying the probables by appointing in-charges in different districts, smaller players like Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) of OP Rajbhar and Shivpal Yadav of Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party are also getting ready to register their presence. Aam Aadmi Party is also preparing to fight the civic polls.
At present, the delimitation process of municipal wards is going on war footing and completed in 53 districts of the state till Saturday. In the remaining 22 districts, the process is ongoing with the urban development department giving final touches to the proposals received from those districts. Sources in the BJP said that the ruling party would contest the civic polls by fielding or supporting Muslim candidates in wards dominated minority community.
SP will contest the civic polls in alliance with Jayant Chaudhury-led Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD). A committee has been set up on the instructions of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav. On the other hand, the Congress party, which got a new state chief in Brijlal Khabri a month ago, is also preparing for the upcoming civic polls.
Litmus test for BJP, SP
The BJP and SP have to go through another litmus test at the bypoll to three crucial Assembly seats, including Mainpuri, Rampur and Khatauli, in the first week of December before going into the civic polls
