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SP-BSP alliance may cost BJP 25-30 Lok Sabha seats in UP: Union minister Ramdas Athawale

  •   Fri, Mar 30 2018 04:30:08 PM

Lucknow, Mar 30 (PTI): Union minister and chief of NDA ally RPI (A) Ramdas Athawale today said the SP-BSP tie-up in Uttar Pradesh might cost the BJP and its partners 25 to 30 Lok Sabha seats in next year's general elections, but asserted that "no one can challenge Prime Minister Narendra Modi".

Uttar Pradesh has 80 Lok Sabha seats of which the BJP and its allies had won 73 in the 2014 parliamentary elections.

The Congress had won Amethi and Rae Bareli, while the Samajwadi Party (SP) won five seats.

After the recent bypolls, SP's tally in the Lok Sabha went up to seven.

"The SP-BSP may damage the BJP and its allies by winning some 25-30 (Lok Sabha) seats. But, the BJP will get more than 50 seats.

However, this will not prevent the BJP-led NDA from returning to power at the Centre after the 2019 Lok Sabha polls," he told a press conference here.

In the same breath, the Republican Party of India (A) leader said, "No one can challenge Prime Minister Narendra Modi - neither Congress president Rahul Gandhi, nor SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, nor BSP supremo Mayawati.

" The SP wrested the prestigious Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha seats from the BJP when it contested the bye-elections after reaching an understanding with the BSP.

A consolidation of OBC, Dalit and Muslim votes powered Samajwadi Party candidates to victory in Gorakhpur, a seat represented by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for five successive terms, and Phulpur, from where his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya was elected in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

Amid Mayawati's ongoing efforts to cobble together non-BJP parties for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the RPI (A) president asked the BSP supremo to join the NDA if her concern for Dalits was genuine.

Seeking to drive a wedge into the new-found bonhomie between the SP and the BSP, Athawale claimed that the BSP candidate lost the Rajya Sabha election in Uttar Pradesh as the SP had "betrayed" Mayawati's nominee by not backing him in return for her support during the Lok Sabha bypolls.

Atrocities were still being committed on Dalits, but the BJP-led government at the Centre was not responsible for it, the Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment said, adding there was need to give more teeth to the law to protect Dalits.
  

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  • Raghavendra M K, Mumbai Maharashtra

    Fri, Mar 30 2018

    Ramdas athavale is another power hungry politician of Maharashtra. First he was with sharad pawar.then congress and now with bjp just to get seat in the cabinet and rajya sabha mp himself. as per my knowledge the dalit movement was very powerful in Maharashtra due to baba saheb amedkar, mahathma phule and many other dalit leaders. and in mahrasthra there is majority of people are dalit,obc and muslism together . so the the major indian political party congress and bjp always purchase these present day leaders to get votes for their respective parties. this man never understand this, so he always with ruling party for petty gain. now he predicting the future result of coming election. which everybody knows if all like minded parties join together then BJP will be wiped off.

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  • SMR, Karkala

    Fri, Mar 30 2018

    No alliance is going to be significantly damage BJP's prospects in 2019 as far as their own trusted 'EVM' in every state assembly elections winning for them.

    The BJP is blessed by Election commison of India. The EVM microchip imported from USA by Indian run company established from Rs20,000 Gujarat gas scam only takes order of its masters.

    All billionaires settled with bank loot of public money and 'finance bill' has legalised corruption, party fund can buy any election of the future.

    Union Minister Ramdas Athawale failed read between the lines of PM Modi who has asked for simultaneous elections of Center and state together.
    1. Why BJP would like lose 20 states if early elections if EVM is not working only for party?

    The BJP has fixed the EVM in such a way it is stealing small percentage of vote just like Millionaires bank account stealing 'penny'. Only small percentage of vote just like Gujarat election is enough the party to bring back to power. They have also transferred Congress votes to 'NOTA' to increase the winning margin.
    This is the reason EVM voting results are always held after two or three days unlike ballot boxes.
    Jai Hind

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  • HENRY MISQUITH, Bahrain

    Fri, Mar 30 2018

    Stop making alliance and take control of EVM machines like BJP is doing

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  • geoffrey, hat hill

    Fri, Mar 30 2018

    Unfortunately only central rulers have access to EVMs and now that Blutooth access was exposed last time, EVMs are totally at the mercy of Jumla kings.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Fri, Mar 30 2018

    BJP will loose badly in 2019 ...

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  • Albert, Mangalore

    Fri, Mar 30 2018

    Next election Potato Pappu and his mom Scam mom will loose deposit for sure!

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  • SAM, mangalore

    Fri, Mar 30 2018

    amit shah and yogi adityanath will cost BJP 100-150 seats this time.

    yeh kaise admi paal rakhe hain tune teja..

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  • Vivek, Hirebyle / Abu dhabi

    Fri, Mar 30 2018

    So far Minister from B.J.P thought attack on Congress will save them .......now get ready for more Bee Attack

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  • Devkumar, Mangalore/New Delhi

    Fri, Mar 30 2018

    Most of the pending bills will start to pass from 2019..

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