Evan as the Samajwadi Party has almost completed the process of the selection of the candidates for the 169 seats it had lost in 2012 assembly polls; the ruling party is in no hurry to start the same for the seats won by it in last assembly polls.
SP sources said apprehending defection and subsequent threat to the stability of the Akhilesh Yadav government the Samajwadi Party is in no hurry to initiate the process of the selection of the candidates for the seats won by it in 2012 state assembly elections. For the sitting seats the process of the selection of the candidates will be taken up six months before the 2017 state assembly election. In 2012 the SP had won 224 seats and later added seven more seats by winn8ing by elections taking the tally to 231.
The Samajwadi party had initiated the process of selection of the candidates for the 169 seats it had lost in 2012 assembly polls and the process is likely to be completed by August 9.
RsRsDo you want to topple our governmentIJ If we start the process of the selection of the candidates right now for the seats won by the party in 2012 then there would be chaos and anarchy and it will be difficult for the party to handle the situation.’’, said a senior party leader on the condition of anonymity. He added RsRs many MlAs and ministers have requested the party leadership for the change in their constituency as they fear anti incumbency and are reluctant to face the voters of their present constituency’’. Moreover he said RsRs the party leadership is aware that many of the sitting MlAs and several ministers are in touch with our rivals like the BJP and BSP for safe seat and the moment they get the right signal they will defect, so party will prefer the safe route and start the process of choosing candidates six months before the 2017 state assembly elections.
A senior SP leader said during the meetings of the district presidents in early July and of the frontal organization the district office bearers had shared the information with the party supremo and party’s state president Akhilesh Yadav and also provided electronic evident about the meetings of the SP MlAs with the leaders of the rival parties. The party sources said the reports from the districts coupled with the reports from the intelligence agency the decided to defer the matter for 2016.
Meanwhile the committee constituted by the SP state president for screening of the candidates for 169 lost by the party in 2012 is likely to submit its report to the party’s general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav. Over1,500 application were received by the party for 169 seats. RsRsSo far we have met the applicants from Kanpur, Jhansi, Azamgarh, Basti, Gorakhpur and lucknow divisions and the remaining two divisions Meerut and Saharanpur will be completed in next two days’’. Said Shahid manzoor, the member of the committee and labour minister. The committee headed by party general secretary and MlC SRS Yadav also includes state Vice president Naresh Uttam and three ministers Kailash Yadav, Kamal Akhtar and Arvind Singh Gope.