In Chhattisgarh, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and Gondwana Gantantra Party (GGP) will contest the assembly elections together. Both the parties have formed an alliance for this. BSP State President Hemant Poyam said that out of 90 seats in Chhattisgarh, BSP will contest on 53 seats while GGP will contest on 37 seats. BSP Rajya Sabha member Ramji Gautam and GGP national general secretary Shyam Singh Markam and other leaders of both the parties announced the alliance at a press conference here on Monday.
Expressing confidence of the alliance’s victory, Poyam said that both the parties will oust Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from the state. The BSP had released its first list of nine candidates for the assembly elections last month. BSP had contested the 2018 assembly elections in alliance with Janata Congress Chhattisgarh-J (JCC-J) and Communist Party of India (CPI).
BSP had contested 35 seats in 2018 and won from Jaijapur and Pamgarh constituencies in Janjgir-Champa district. The deposits of the party’s candidates on 28 seats were forfeited. BSP’s ally JCC(J) had got five seats.
BSP got 3.87 percent votes in the elections. GGP had contested 38 seats in 2018 and did not get even a single seat. The deposits of the party’s candidates on 36 seats were forfeited. In the last election, GGP got 1.73 percent votes.
BSP has a lot of influence in the Scheduled Caste dominated areas living in the plains of Chhattisgarh. At the same time, GGP got support in some tribal dominated parts of Bilaspur and Surguja region. According to political analysts, the alliance of BSP and GGP can make a dent in the vote bank of the ruling party Congress.
