SBSP chief dismisses claims of joining BJP
Lucknow Mar 20 PTI SBSP chief Om Prakash Rajbhar on Sunday dismissed claims of joining former ally BJP in Uttar Pradesh and meeting Amit Shah saying neither did he go to Delhi nor meet anyoneThe claims were made on social media on Saturday that Rajbhar had met Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Shah in the national capitalThe Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party SBSP had fought the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls with the BJP but severed ties with the saffron party as Rajbhar quit the Yogi Adityanath cabinet before the 2019 general electionsIn 2022 the SBSP fought the Uttar Pradesh polls as part of the Samajwadi Party-led alliance which lost at the hustingsThe news of SBSP joining hands with the BJP is baseless Neither did I go to Delhi nor meet anyone We are with the Samajwadi Party and have started preparations for the upcoming urban local bodies elections in the state Rajbhar told reporters hereSBSP national general secretary and spokesperson Arun Rajbhar told PTI There is no question of aligning with the BJP The photo doing rounds on social media is an old photo An attempt is being made so that we may align with the BJP We are with the Samajwadi Party and will contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections with them he saidIn the 2022 polls the BJP won 255 of the 403 assembly seats in the state while the Samajwadi Party got 111 The SBSP bagged six two seats more than what it got in 2017 as a ally of the BJP PTI NAV ANB ANB
Lucknow Mar 20 PTI SBSP chief Om Prakash Rajbhar on Sunday dismissed claims of joining former ally BJP in Uttar Pradesh and meeting Amit Shah saying neither did he go to Delhi nor meet anyoneThe claims were made on social media on Saturday that Rajbhar had met Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Shah in the national capitalThe Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party SBSP had fought the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls with the BJP but severed ties with the saffron party as Rajbhar quit the Yogi Adityanath cabinet before the 2019 general electionsIn 2022 the SBSP fought the Uttar Pradesh polls as part of the Samajwadi Party-led alliance which lost at the hustingsThe news of SBSP joining hands with the BJP is baseless Neither did I go to Delhi nor meet anyone We are with the Samajwadi Party and have started preparations for the upcoming urban local bodies elections in the state Rajbhar told reporters hereSBSP national general secretary and spokesperson Arun Rajbhar told PTI There is no question of aligning with the BJP The photo doing rounds on social media is an old photo An attempt is being made so that we may align with the BJP We are with the Samajwadi Party and will contest the 2024 Lok Sabha elections with them he saidIn the 2022 polls the BJP won 255 of the 403 assembly seats in the state while the Samajwadi Party got 111 The SBSP bagged six two seats more than what it got in 2017 as a ally of the BJP PTI NAV ANB ANB
