Mayawati, the leader of the Bahujan Samaj Party, convened a significant gathering of BSP party officials on Wednesday in Lucknow to advance planning for the Lok Sabha elections in 2024. The Chief Zone-in-Charge, the District President, and the officers of the All India Backward and Minority Communities Employees Federation (BAMCEF) were present at the meeting, which was held at the party headquarters in Lucknow.
According to party sources, the meeting covered a variety of topics, including the growth of the organisation, preparing the party for high-stakes contests, and polling strategy at the booth level. The BSP does not now support any political party and is not a member of the BJP-led National Democratic coalition (NDA) or the INDIA coalition.
Earlier in the month, the party released its first list of candidates for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh assembly elections scheduled to be held at the end of this year.
According to the list issued by the party, the names of candidates for seven seats out of 230 have been announced. Of these seven assembly constituencies, two seats are in Rewa, two in Satna, and one each in Chhatarpur, Niwari and Morena districts.
Among the seven seats, six seats are of unreserved category and one is reserved for the scheduled caste category.
In the 2019 general elections the BSP and the Samajwadi Party led by Akhilesh Yadav had fought in an alliance. The two parties failed to make an impact with the BSP winning 10 of the 38 seats it contested, while the SP won 5 of the 37 seats from where it fielded candidates. After that debacle the BSP decided to go it alone in the assembly elections in 2022.
