Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati will kick-start her party’s campaign for UP assembly elections by addressing a public meeting at Kothi Meena Bazaar in Agra city on Wednesday.
A BSP spokesperson said that Covid protocol and the model code of conduct would be strictly adhered to in the party’s first poll meeting in Agra.
All party candidates of districts in Agra division will be present in the public meeting.
After reaching Agra airport by an aircraft, Mayawati will reach the rally ground by a chopper.
Mayawati will hold public meetings division-wise in the UP polls and will also campaign in Punjab, where the BSP is contesting the assembly polls in alliance with Shiromani Akali Dal.
It is noteworthy that in the 2022 UP elections, the BSP is going it alone on all 403 assembly seats. The party has so far announced 293 candidates for the first five phases of the elections, in which preference has been given to social engineering.
So far, 81 upper caste candidates have been fielded by the BSP. It has also given tickets to 63 members of Scheduled Caste, 80 of Other Backward Classes and 69 Muslim.
The party claimed that it was contesting elections on the issues of development and good governance and promised to change the destiny of Uttar Pradesh through development and progress if the BSP formed a government in the state.
On Monday, the BSP had released a list of 61 candidates, It fielded Santosh Kumar Tripathi against Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya from Sirathu assembly seat in Kaushambi and Ravi Prakash Maurya from Ayodhya. In the latest list, the party has given tickets to 15 Scheduled Castes and nine Muslims. Kaushambi and Ayodhya seats will go to polls in the fifth phase on February 27.