SP takes fight for upper aste votes to CM’S home turf

The Bahujan Samaj y (BSP) has decided to take ight for the upper castemin votes to Gorakhpur, ome turf of chief minister Aditynath.

P national general secresatish Chandra Mishra will ess a series of Brahmin munity meetings named udh vichar goshthi’ in Gorur region from September yers, doctors, teachers, traders and people from various walks of life from the Brahmin community would participate in the meetings, he said.

On September 1, the Brahmin conference will be organized in Shrawasti in Balrampur. On September 2, the conference will be organized in Deoria, Kushi Nagar, Gorakhpur and Maharajaganj districts. On September 3, the conference will be organized in Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar and Siddharth Nagar districts.

In the 2017 assembly elections when the BJP wave swept the state, the BSP managed to secure victory on Chillupar assembly seat in Gorakhpur, with Vinay Shankar Tiwari defeating BJP candidate Rajesh Tripathi. Even as the BJP is working to maintain hold on the seats, the BSP plans to win the seats with the Dalit- Brahmin formula.

A political observer AK Srivcommunity

was led by the successive mahants of Gorakhnath temple- Mahanth Avaidyanath and Yogi Adityanath. The BSP was working to propel the continuing rivalry to win the suppoort of the Brahmin community, he said.

The BSP launched the Brahmin conference at Ayodhya on July 23. It played the Ram temple card, calling upon the voters to support the BSP in the 2022 assembly election for speedy construction of a grand temple.

Addressing a Brahmin conference in Gonda on Monday, Mishra said the saffron brigade had raised a huge fund for the construction of Ram temple. But Ayodhya remained neglected and the construction of the temple was also continuing at a slow pace. The BJP must give details of the money contributed by the common people for the construction of the temple, he said.

The atrocities over Dalits and