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Assembly segments in Uttar Pradesh. youth, and welfare schemes.
The seat-sharing has not been announced yet. Along with the second supplementary budget,
In 2017, the BJP had given a total of 19 seats to its the Uttar Pradesh government is also likely to table
two allies-Apna Dal(S) and the Suheldev Bharti- an interim budget for the financial year 2022-2023.
ya Samaj Party (SBSP). Formed in 2016, the NI-
SHAD party had contested 100 seats on its own on the other hand, samajwadi Party (sP)
and won in 1.
In an attempt to woo the Nishad community, chief akhilesh Yadav on thursday met his
SP president Akhilesh Yadav met Moola Devi, the uncle and leader of Pragatisheel samajwa-
mother of bandit-turned-politician, the late SP MP
Phoolan Devi in November. di Party (lohia), shivpal singh Yadav at
The Samajwadi Party between September to the latter’s residence in lucknow and held
November also launched several yatras, assigning
its leaders and coalition partners -- mostly from discussions on forging an alliance ahead
non-Yadav backward castes -- to reach out to the of Uttar Pradesh assembly polls.
masses. Former minister Ram Kishore Bind also
held social conventions with leaders of the Bind,
Nishad, Kevat, and Mallah communities. In the 2017 Assembly elections in Uttar
On another front, the Uttar Pradesh gov- Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party bagged 312
ernment tabled its second supplementary budget seats out of the 403-seat Uttar Pradesh Assem-
in the Assembly for the financial year 2021-22 bly while Samajwadi Party (SP) bagged 47 seats,
on Thursday. The proposal for the supplemen- Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) won 19 and Con-
tary budget was approved by the State Cabinet gress could manage to win only seven seats. The
in a meeting held at Chief Minister Yogi Adi- rest of the seats were bagged by other candidates.
tyanath’s residence. The cabinet is likely to add uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath performs rituals Now as the battle for UP heats up, all political
new schemes to this supplementary budget. The at Kashi Vishwanath temple in Varanasi (ANI) parties are expected to throw everything at the crucial
budget is likely to be focused on infrastructure, election in the most important state in the country.
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