Anupriya Patel and Raja Bhaiya.
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The war of words between Union Minister Anupriya Patel and Kunda MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya is likely to have an impact on the elections. Anupriya has attacked Raja Bhaiya on Pratapgarh seat. Now there is talk that Raja Bhaiya will go to Mirzapur to campaign against him. In such a situation, political activity has increased a lot on these closely contested seats.
In Mirzapur, Raja Bhaiya’s party Jansatta Dal Loktantrik has given its support to the Samajwadi Party candidate. District President of Jansatta Dal Loktantrik Sanjay Mishra expressed his support by giving a leaflet to District President of Samajwadi Party Devi Prasad Chaudhary. Actually, this matter started when Jansatta Dal Loktantrik President Raja Bhaiya, even after meeting Home Minister Amit Shah, told his supporters to choose the candidate as per their choice.
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After this, his supporters were also seen in the meetings of the SP candidate in Pratapgarh. Raja Bhaiya has influence on Kaushambi and Pratapgarh Lok Sabha seats as well as some other nearby seats. Two assembly seats of Pratapgarh, Kunda and Babaganj, come under the Kaushambi Lok Sabha seat. Raja Bhaiya himself is an MLA from Kunda and his party’s Vinod Saroj is an MLA from the Babaganj reserved seat.
This is the reason why Kaushambi’s victory depends a lot on this. It is being said that Raja Bhaiya’s supporters voted in favour of the SP candidate in the Kaushambi seat. Now the effect of Raja Bhaiya’s sidelining is also being felt on the Pratapgarh Lok Sabha seat. There are a large number (13%) of Patel community people in the Pratapgarh seat, to woo whom BJP’s ally Apna Dal (S) national president Anupriya Patel is also continuously campaigning.
Let us tell you that in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, Kunwar Harivansh Singh of Apna Dal had won the election from here. Angered by Raja Bhaiya’s changed attitude, Anupriya Patel had recently raised the political temperature in Pratapgarh by saying in a meeting held in Kunda that, “In democracy, kings are not born from the queen’s womb, but from EVMs.” Break the illusion that Kunda is someone’s property.” Without taking his name, Anupriya’s target was on Raja Bhaiya.
Political analyst Prof. Sushil Pandey says that caste politics and its voters are very effective in the state. This time too the voters are quite calm. Whatever the claims, Thakur is a devout voter and will go with the BJP. In Pratapgarh and Kaushambi, Raja Bhaiya is unhappy not with the party but with the candidates. They want to have their influence on these seats. BJP has also given tickets keeping caste in mind. Kurmi voters are very organized. In such a situation, this tussle is probably the effect of this. However, here too many OBC and Dalit voters are with BJP.
