Rajbhar ready to contest elections with BJP in UP, but with condition
- Suheldev BSP president Om Prakash Rajbhar, who has led the front of small parties in UP, said that the BJP will vote if a backward class person is the chief ministerial candidate for next year's assembly elections.
- If declared, his party will support the BJP. Rajbhar, a former BJP ally and minister in the Yogi Adityanath government, met the ruling party's state president Swatantra Dev Singh.
- He, however, initially described it as a 'courtesy call'. He had earlier described the possibility of an alliance with the BJP as "negligible" and claimed that his party would "destroy" the BJP in the elections next year.
- While Rajbhar did not rule out the possibility of an alliance with the ruling party later. BJP state vice-president Dayashankar Singh said that both the parties would fight the 2022 assembly elections together.
- He said, "If the BJP announces the caste-wise census of our backward classes, implementation of the report of the Social Justice Committee, 33 percent reservation for women, equal compulsory, etc the only we will consider an alliance with BJP."
