Rajya Sabha
The SP would be left with 10 votes to spare for Ambedkar after voting for Bachchan. The BSP has 19 votes of its own, and Ambedkar also has the support of seven Congress MLAS and one Rashtriya Lok Dal MLA, giving him exactly 37 votes.
In hectic lobbying preceding Friday’s elections, two additional state legislators – SP’S Nitin Agrawal and independent Amanmani Tripathi – attended a meeting over dinner hosted by chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday, suggesting that they would vote for the BJP’S ninth candidate. The BJP is also banking on Vijay Mishra, a legislator of the Nishad Party, who has assured it of support. This takes Agarwal’s tally to 31 votes.
The battle on Friday is about whether the opposition is able to retain its 37 MLAS, or the BJP is able to wean away six more to its side.
A win over Ambedkar would exact revenge for the BJP, which lost the crucial Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha seats to the SP this month in by-elections in which the latter had the backing of the BSP.
But BJP strategists admit that it is not going to be easy. The presence of independent legislator Raghuraj Pratap Singh, better known as Raja Bhaiya, and SP president Akhilesh Yadav’s estranged uncle and party member of the legislative assembly (MLA) Shivpal Yadav at the SP’S dinner for lawmakers indicates that the Opposition is in no mood to give up the fight. “After Shivpal’s attendance at the SP dinner and claim that both candidates supported by his party would win, it remains to be seen how the SP’S family feud plays out at the time of the actual voting,” a BJP insider said.
At the same time, observers believe that there could be a last minute swing. “As it is in power, BJP seems to have advantage at the moment as it has a few committed extra votes.” says Athar Siddiqui of the Centre of Objective Research and Development. BJP strategists are also looking out for ‘vulnerable’ MLAS in the SP, the BSP and the Congress.
Former SP general secretary Naresh Agrawal reached the BJP state headquarters on Thursday where he, along with his son Nitin Agrawal, formally joined the BJP in the presence of the party’s state president Mahendra Nath Pandey. on frauds involving amounts higher than ₹1 crore (but less than ₹3 crore).
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