Those close to OP Rajbhar say this is part of new strategy to keep party workers engaged after 2024 LS setback when his son lost Ghosi & a section of cadre reportedly drifted towards SP.
SBSP, an NDA ally in UP, plans to contest 153 seats in Bihar after talks with BJP failed. It keeps door open for alliances with smaller parties to form a new front.
In 2017, SBSP was allied with BJP and Rajbhar was made minister. He quit Yogi cabinet after 2019 LS polls and teamed up with Akhilesh in 2021, but that too didn’t last long.
SBSP chief and SP ally Om Prakash Rajbhar has a lead over his rivals with 34,667 votes, and a voteshare of over 44 per cent. Kalicharan Rajbhar has got 22,838 votes.
Om Prakash Rajbhar, president of SP ally Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party, faces BJP’s Kalicharan Rajbhar and BSP’s Shadab Fatima in UP’s Zahoorabad constituency.
Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party chief Om Prakash Rajbhar last week announced the alliance with the Samajwadi Party for the 2022 UP polls, saying this would ‘wipe out the BJP’.
Om Prakash Rajbhar’s SBSP and BJP had been at loggerheads in UP for months. The last straw was when Rajbhar asked his supporters at a rally to thrash BJP workers.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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