The Aam Aadmi Party( AAP) has announced its support to the Samajwadi Party candidates in the Uttar Pradesh bye -polls. " Our stand is clear. Don't get divided but defeat BJP at any cost," announced AAP leader and in-charge of UP Sanjay Singh here on Monday while launching the party's membership drive.
The party’s Central Election Committee (CEC) has finalised the name of candidates for the second phase, said its General Secretary in-charge of Organisation KC Venugopal.
Consensus on who could fit the bill, within the Yadav family, as a candidate for the Lok Sabha constituency eludes the party.
The O.Panneerselvam (OPS) faction of the AIADMK is likely to withdraw its candidate, Senthil Murugan, from the Erode East by-election scheduled to be held on February 27.
He filed his nomination papers for the Vice-President's post on the day when Presidential elections are being held.
The Chief Ministers of all BJP-ruled states including Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Assam Chief Minister and Himanta Biswa Sarma among others were present during her nomination filing.
The meeting was called by NCP top leader Sharad Pawar and attended by leaders from the Congress, TMC, Samajwadi Party, CPI, CPI-M, National Conference, and RJD among others.
A lot of theories like a candidate from Schedule Tribe (ST), Scheduled Caste (SC), or from south India are playing in the political circles, and by all probability, the BJP-led NDA will nominate a candidate with an eye on the 2024 Parliamentary elections.
Overall, the BJP has replaced at least 15 of its sitting MLAs in the Assembly constituencies of eastern UP, going to the polls in the sixth and seventh phase. There are seven women in the candidate list.
Another name mentioned as a possible presidential candidate is longtime Duterte ally and former aide Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go, though he told the party at the end of August that he had decided not to run for president
