The SP-BSP-RLD alliance in Uttar Pradesh will kick-start its joint campaign for the Lok Sabha election on Sunday by holding its first rally in Deoband town of Saharanpur.
Deoband is known for the Islamic seminary Darul Uloom Deoband.
Top leaders of Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and Rashtriya Lok Dal will address the Sunday’s rally at Deoband. Saharanpur and seven other constituencies of western UP will go to polls in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections on April 11.
Candidates and cadre of the three parties from Saharanpur, Kairana, Bijnor and Muzaffarnagar will participate in the Deoband rally.
‘’The first rally of the alliance partners will be jointly addressed by Mayawati, Akhilesh Yadav and Ajit Singh on the second day of Navratri on April 7. The rally will be held near Jamia Tibbiya in Deoband. A total of 11 such rallies have been planned across the state in a systematic manner and the last one will be held at Varanasi on May 16,” SP spokesman Rajendra Chaudhary said in Lucknow on Saturday.
The alliance will have a joint flag with pictures of Mayawati and Akhilesh Yadav while instructions have been given to all candidates and leaders that all hoardings are to have pictures of both leaders and the picture of the candidate should not be bigger than that of the two party chiefs.
The alliance will hold rallies in Budaun on April 13, Agra on April 16, Mainpuri on April 19, Rampur on April 20 followed by on in Firozabad.
Joint rallies will also be held in Kannauj on April 25, Faizabad on May 1 and Azamgarh on May 8.
While SP patron Mulayam Singh is the candidate from Mainpuri, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav is trying his luck from Azamgarh and his wife Dimple from Kannauj.
The alliance will also organise rallies at Gorakhpur and Varanasi, the bastions of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, respectively.
While the rally at Gorakhpur is scheduled on May 13, the one at Varanasi will be held on May 16.