Having lost its ground substantially in its parent State Uttar Pradesh and completely in Madhya Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party (SP) is striving hard to regain its presence in the State. Soon UP Chief Minister Akhlesh Yadav and party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav would hold public meetings and would preside over workers conclave in the State to strengthen party organisation and charge workers.
SP State president Ashok Yadav while talking to The Pioneer told that the party is taking many steps to regain lost grounds. “We have launched membership drive last days that is getting very good response besides we are contacting party’s old leaders and workers who are inactive due to one reason or another. We revamped the State organisation and also appointed with the divisional and district in-charges. Most of these in-charges have already toured the division or district of their charge and would soon submit report to me.”
Yadav further said that before the local bodies’ elections in the State the party would be completely ready with strong base and battery of party workers to pose stiff challenge to the ruling BJP and the main Opposition Congress.“We would bounce back and emerge as an alternative of the BJP and the Congress as the people of State have fed up with these parties who have given nothing to them except for false promises,” he added.
He said that in order to strengthen our base and mobilize our leaders and workers we are organising district conventions in six phases starting from July 14 to September 18. During the six phases 37 districts would be covered in that party workers and office bearers including that of party umbrella organisations would participate.
National office bearers of the party, legislators and Ministers from UP would participate in these conventions that would chalk out strategy to strengthen party organisation and to launch struggle against the State Government besides strategy would be formulated for the local body elections, he added.The SP State president said that the conventions of the metropolitan cities like Bhopal, Indore, Gwalior and Jabalpur would be presided by the UP Chief Minister and party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav.
The regional outfit that rose from one legislator in the State Assembly in the tenth Assembly of State elections for that were held in 1998 to eight legislators in the twelfth Assembly that was elected in 2003 failed to open its account in the current house that is fourteenth Assembly of State election for that was held in 2013.
The party not only lost numbers gradually in term of members in the house but its vote share that was 3.27 per cent in 1998 and rose to over 7 per cent in 2003 came down to below one per cent in 2013.