JD (U) to contest Uttar Pradesh assembly elections on its own

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RATAN SHARGA

05 January, 2012

There is a split in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Uttar Pradesh, before the much awaited assembly polls after the BJP leaders failed to keep its ally Janta Dal (United) in its fold. The JD (U) finally decided to contest polls alone.

IT SEEMS all is not going well for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Uttar Pradesh as their main ally, the Janta Dal (United) decided to field its own candidates and the party will be fighting elections all alone.

This happened after the Bharatiya Janta Party leaders failed to reach an agreement on the seat-sharing besides the issue of former Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) tainted minister Babu Lal Kushwaha joining the BJP just before elections also did not go well with the senior JD-U leaders including its national president Sharad Yadav.

Yadav looked virtually disturbed over the inclusion of Kushwaha into the party which has been posturing tough against corruption at various levels.

Now it is official, it will not be the NDA contesting elections in Uttar Pradesh but the JD-(U) and the BJP will be fighting the elections separately on their party symbols. JD – (U) general secretary Subhash Pathak said the party would contest the upcoming polls on its own in Uttar Pradesh and the party’s national president Sharad Yadav has finalized the first list of candidates for some 32 seats.

He said that party’s state president Suresh Niranjan ‘Bhaiyyaji’ was in Delhi and was in constant touch with the senior party leaders like Sharad Yadav and K C Tyagi. The party has made its first list of candidates’ public and the list includes the names of following candidates.

Mahendra Singh Yadav-(Sikandrabad), Brijesh Mishra-(Pratapgarh), Jagdish Lal (Siswa), Rajesh Yadav (Gunnaor), S C Srivastava (Rampur Karkhana), Jai Singh Yadav (Raniganj), Manweer Tewatia (Jewar), Ranvir Pradhan (Dadri), Anil Saxena (Barkhera), Rajendra Rai (Sikanderpur), Rahul Kumar (Lalganj), Ram Cander Yadav (Gopalpur), Shyam Sunder Yadav (Madhuban), Shanker Yadav (Sagri), Hare Ram Patel (Ballia), Bhagirathi Prasad (Salempur), Ajay Vishwakarma (Khadda), Ravi Tewari (Kidwai Nagar), Anoop Patel (Shekhupur), A N Patel (Medihan), Smt Sushma Devi Gautam (Puranpur), Subhash Yadav (Tanda), K Kannaujiya (Manikapur), R K Upadhyaya (Katihari), R C Yadav (Shohratgarh), D D Yadav (Barhej Bazar), A K Gahlot (Dhampur), Dr Prakash Mishra (Sisamau), Abhinaya Chaudhary (Kanth), Manoj Kumar Saini (Nawabganj) and Chandra Shekhar (Bareilly Cantt).

Subhash Pathak said that party’s national leaders including Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar along with party’s national president Sharad Yadav would come to campaign for party candidates. The party will present “Bihar model of government” before the electorate and will seek mandate on the issue of good governance.