The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on June 16 became the first party to announce candidates for the Chhattisgarh assembly polls, slated for November, but its first list of 50 names does not have even a single Muslim. The first list has 18 candidates from Other Backward Classes (OBC), 16 from the general category including four Brahmins and four Thakurs, eight from the Scheduled Castes and eight from Scheduled Tribes. BSP state president Dauram Ratnakar told reporters that the second list of candidates would be announced by July-end once the party chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati clears the list of probables sent by the state unit last month.
Ratnakar however said the party would try to accommodate “a few Muslim candidates” in the second list of the remaining 40 seats “if winning candidates were available”.
BSP’S FIRST LIST FOR CHHATTISGARH POLLS HAS NO MUSLIMS
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on June 16 became the first party to announce candidates for the Chhattisgarh assembly polls, slated for November, but its first list of 50 names does not have even a single Muslim.
