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From cabinet berths in the UP government to tickets for the Lok Sabha elections, are some of the incentives the BJP seems to have offered to OBC leaders. Om Prakash Rajbar And Dara Singh Chauhan For their return to the fold of the National Democratic Alliance.
Chauhan was a member of the MLA from Gosi constituency in Mau Province.
The accession of both senior leaders came as a shot in the arm for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh and a blow to the Samajwadi Party with less than 10 months left until the Lok Sabha elections (April-May 2024).
Alignment will also help the BJP send a message to voters of OBCs (Other Backward Classes) about the party – often seen as an upper-caste-dominated party – deeming it valuable. However, the BJP’s OBC sensitization started in UP with alliance with Apna Dal (Sonelal) and Nishad Party – the two parties with strong OBC voter base in East and Central UP.
According to sources familiar with the development, the BJP may enter both Rajbar and Chauhan in Prime Minister Yogi Adityanath’s cabinet.
The party may nominate Chauhan to the Ghosi seat, which became vacant after his resignation. The party may also consider sending him from Ghosi or Ghazipur in LS polls. Besides, he will be tasked with establishing a strong relationship with his constituents in his community to get maximum support in the elections,” said the BJP leader.
He added that Rajbar is indeed a multilateral liberation army for a second term and can be absorbed into the state government.
Interestingly, the SSP party demanded the Gosi Lok Sabha seat to engage Om Prakash Rajbar or his younger son Arun, according to party sources.
The BJP lost the Gazipur and Gosi seats to the BSP in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections).
It is among the five assembly seats that fall under Ghazipur’s constituency. Of the five Assembly seats under the Gausi Parliamentary constituency, the BJP won the Madhuban seat, the Socialist Party won two seats and the Socialist Socialist Party won one seat each. Chauhan won Goose as the candidate of the Socialist Party.
Rajbar and Chauhan were both ministers in the previous Adityanath government. In 2019, Rajbar withdrew from the coalition and joined the SP for the 2022 assembly elections. Chauhan joined the SP in January 2022, ahead of the assembly elections.
“Rajbhar could be given a place in the cabinet because SBSP has six MLAs, including Rajbhar, who represents Zahoorabad. He was a cabinet minister in 2017 when his party only had four multilateral agreements. Chauhan is also a Grand Leader and deputy thrice (Rajya Sabha twice and Lok Sabha once). Another BJP leader said: He is a senior OBC leader and, therefore, assumes importance as the LS polls are fast approaching.
Asked if he would join the cabinet or get Lok Sabha tickets, Rajbar said, “I didn’t demand anything. I just came with the NDA. I will be able to tell anything after discussions with the BJP’s top leadership, including the president.” Ministers Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP National President JP Nada and OPCM Yogi Adityanath.”
Chauhan told the Indian Express that he will officially join the Bharatiya Janata Party at the state headquarters in Lucknow on Monday. On joining the cabinet or getting a Lok Sabha ticket in 2024, Chauhan said, “I have no idea. Whichever party decides, I will follow it.”
Notably, the two other allies of the BJP – the Apna Dal (S) and the Nishad party – are part of the union cabinet.
BJP spokesperson Rakesh Tripathi said, “These are the parties with a large voter base, but they came along with the BJP due to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public welfare policies. Issues like seat-sharing will be decided by the BJP leadership after discussion with senior leaders of these parties.” “.
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