JALANDHAR: Outside of these 20 seats given to Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), 12 are typical and equivalent number are such chairs which were formerly contested by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) was able to maintain those three booked seats in which it’s three sitting MLAs at Doaba area, but they also happen to be strongholds of both BSP and latter had been demanding these chairs too.
The chairs allocated to BSP comprise Kartarpur, Jalandhar West, Jalandhar North, Phagwara, Nawansheher, Hoshiarpur City, Tanda, Dasuya, Chamkaur Sahib, Bassi Pathana, Mehal Kalan, Ludhiana North, Sujanpur, Bhoa, Pathankot, Anandpur Sahib, Mohali, Amritsar North, Amritsar Central and Payal.
Of them, eight are at Doaba area, where celebration has its strongest presence.
However, on many chairs of Malwa, in which it obtained three (as four being predicted in Malwa are in Puadh area ), it is sometimes a great vote aggregator for both SAD and has the capability to tilt the equilibrium.
But, BSP sources stated a sense is existing which party doesn’t have very powerful presence on a number of seats left to their own.
Although senior BJP leader Manoranjan Kalia on Saturday called it a’most unnatural alliance’, however, elections of 1989 and 1996 have proved that SAD and BSP Republicans moved their voters into each other effortlessly.
In1989, BSP had a alliance with Simranjit Singh Mannled Akali Dal and celebration obtained its first MP from Punjab from Harbhajan Lakha out of Phillaur constituency.
Parkash Singh Badal-led SAD at the time contested individually and it had been decreased to gross profits since Sikh voters favored Mann headed Akali Dal.
Back in 1996, BSP obtained its own three MPs, such as Kanshi Ram, but the alliance had been short lived as Badal favored to choose BJP later winning the election”late Gurcharan Singh Tohra desired to keep alliance with BSP, however Badal prevailed and ideologically closer alliance between SAD and BSP had been busted,” said writer Gurbachan Singh, who worked closely together with Kanshi Ram and was regularly writing on Dalits and their connection with Sikhs.
An gap from 1989 and 1996 is that on both events Sikh voters had nearly fully rallied behind SAD, but today a huge part of Sikhs are still annoyed.