After CM Arvind Kejriwal, CM Mamata Banerjee and CM K Chandrashekhar Rao, now SP Chief Akhilesh Yadav seems to be following a similar line and has indicated his ambition to play a key role in national politics in 2024. According to sources, SP will fight alone in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh assembly elections in 2023. Meanwhile, SP will mainly emphasis on Bundelkhand region adjoining the UP border and in Gwalior-Chambal, Riva and Sagar region in Madhya Pradesh.
Ahead of Municipal elections and 2024 General election , Vishwanath Pal, has been appointed as the new president in Uttar Pradesh by BSP chief Mayawati. Pal has replaced Bhim Rajbhar who was appointed to the post in November 2020 and has been assigned the role of coordinator in Bihar. This change of the state unit president is seen as the Mayawati’s strategy to receive the support of the extremely backward caste (EBC). The BSP is working on the DalitMuslim-OBC formula. Viswanath Pal belongs to gadariya community (MBC). He was chief sector coordinator of Ayodhya, Mirzapur and Prayagraj division.
Invitations have been extended by Congress party to several leaders, including Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, BSP supremo Mayawati, RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary and OM Prakash Rajbhar to join the Uttar Pradesh leg of its ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra. However, political observers find this as a Congress move to unite non-BJP parties through the Yatra ahead of General elections in 2024. In the meantime, former Union minister Salman Khurshid has linked the Bharat Jodo Yatra to the epic Ramayana.
BJP is all set to field its Shalimar Bagh councillor Rekha Gupta as its Delhi Mayor candidate to challenge AAP’s Shelly Oberoi in 6 January elections. The BJP has also decided other names such as Kamal Bagri as deputy mayor candidate as well as Kamaljeet Sehrawat, Gajendra Daral and Pankaj Luthra for standing committee member posts. The AAP ended the BJP’s 15-year-rule in the MCD winning 134 of the 250 wards in the civic body polls earlier this month.