Even as the SP-BSP-RLD alliance will formally launch its poll campaign from Deoband on April 7, the leaders of these parties have stepped up efforts to tighten the loose ends at the grass-root level. The BSP, SP and RLD brass are going down to the brass tacks to ensure that every vote is transferred to one of the alliance partners as their chances of winning depend on this arithmetic.
The grand alliance is focusing on the first phase on April 11, when eight Lok Sabha seats of east UP will go to polls. “In the first round, we have completed Lok Sabha-wise meetings of party workers from all three parties. For the second phase, we have started Assembly segment-wise meetings of party workers,” said Sudhir Pawar who contested the 2017 Assembly elections from Shamli.