Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said that Samajwad is no longer the same as founded by Jayaprakash Narayan or Ram Manohar Lohia instead, it has new faces like the Lathait Samajwad , Poonji and Awsarwadi Samajwad and they are all like a family.
The December 5 by-poll, necessitated by the death of SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav, will bring to the fore among other issues the ongoing family feud of the Yadavs, and whether or not the Muslim vote has moved away from SP.
UPDATED: May 4, 2021 12:53 IST
Voters stand in a queue to cast their votes in Uttar Pradesh panchayat election in Mathura (Source: PTI)
The Samajwadi Party (SP) has claimed a big victory over the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the
Uttar Pradesh panchayat polls. The Samajwadi Party claimed it had won more than half of the posts in district panchayats while alleging the administration was not handing over certificates to its candidates.
Uttar Pradesh
held panchayat polls in four phases ending April 29. The election was held at four levels of panchayat bodies gram panchayat, gram pradhan, block panchayat and zila panchayat.
The panchayat polls in Uttar Pradesh are not contested on party symbols. However, all the parties managed candidate selection and election campaigns in a centralised manner this time around.