BJP ally Nishad Party wants larger share in power ahead of U.P. Assembly election
The Hindu
Party chief says BJP has failed to keep its promise
The Nishad Party, an Other Backward Class (OBC)-based ally of the ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh, has demanded a larger share in power ahead of the 2022 Assembly poll, even showing interest in the Deputy Chief Minister post. Nishad Party president Sanjay Nishad, self-proclaimed ‘political godfather of fishermen,’ has said the BJP failed to fulfil the promises made by it in 2019, when the Nishad Party dumped the SP-BSP alliance and switched over.
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