Chief Minister Lost Gorakhpur In 1971: Dalit Icon Reminds Yogi Adityanath
NDTV
Azad Samaj Party chief Chandra Shekhar Aazad is set to take on Yogi Adiyanath in his stronghold Gorakhpur in the upcoming UP assembly elections.
Undaunted by the prospect of taking on Yogi Adiyanath in his stronghold, Azad Samaj Party president Chandra Shekhar Aazad said the people of Gorakhpur will repeat the history of 1971 when a chief minister of Uttar Pradesh lost elections from the assembly constituency.
Confident that victory will be his, Mr Aazad, whose party is heading the Samajik Parivartan Morcha of 36 small outfits, also pitched himself as a chief ministerial candidate from the alliance that is contesting 403 seats in the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls beginning next month.
"We need to go back to the history of Gorakhpur…In 1971, a sitting chief minister, T N Singh, was defeated by the people of Gorakhpur. Similarly, Adityanath is the Chief Minister now and is responsible for the destruction of UP and Gorakhpur in the last five years," Mr Aazad, popularly called 'Ravan', told news agency PTI.
After talks of an alliance with the Samajwadi Party failed, the Azad Samaj Party (ASP) decided to forge a coalition of small parties based on its not-so-good experiences with big and established parties.
