BSP announces first UP poll list

January 06, 2017 10:40

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati announced nominees for 100 of the 403 constituencies in Uttar Pradesh for the seven-phase assembly polls there. It appears a third of those in the BSP first list are Muslims, around 19 per cent of voters and being wooed by the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP), too.

In 2012, the community majorly supported the SP and are expected to ope for candidates bet placed to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The BSP won a majority in the 2007 UP assembly poll but won only 80 of the 403 seats in 2012.

-- Amit Agnihotri/Business Standard

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