uniya,’ to the Samajwadi ranks is an indication he quit the party in 2008 to join the BSP, then moved to the RLD and is now back in the Samajwadi fold that Muslims are gravitating towards the Samajwadi Party.Mr. Siddiqui, explaining his return, told IRT that the Muslims in UP have realized that no other party that will protect their interests as well as the Samajwadi Party. “The Congress is still too weak, the BSP has frittered away the Muslim advantage it had in the last election and we won’t touch the BJP,” he said.Congress party leaders admitted as much, although they are now being besieged by another fear: that the BSP and the Samajwadi Party will also put up Muslim candidates in seats in which Congress’s Muslim candidates believe they stand a chance to win.“This will divide up the Muslim vote three-ways, http://www.tomsoutletsalecheap.com - toms outlet , what is going to happen to us then, http://www.cheaptomsshoessalei.com - toms outlet ,” wailed one Congress leader.Clearly, the action is hotting up as India’s most important state prepares to go to the polls.Jyoti Malhotra is a freelance journalist based in New Delhi. She writes for India’s Business Standard daily and for Pakistan’s Express Tribune.Follow India Real Time on Twitter @indiarealtime. Add a Comment Error message Name We welcome thoughtful comments from readers. Please comply with our guidelines. Our blogs do not require the use of your real name. Comment Comments (4 of 4) View all Comments 2:41 pm January 6, 2012 DK wrote: Agree with your analysis. However, Mr Shahid Siddiqui changing parties is not indicative of anything, As noted by you he does that every few years. In fact he is now regarded as a turncourt 10:41 pm January 5, 2012 Ram wrote: BJP may have got it right this time. the only constituency it can now go after is OBC and BJP has been working on it for a while. That is why it brought in Uma Bharati into UP. Poor people of UP still vote on caste lines, http://www.tomsoutletsalecheap.com - tomsoutletsalecheap.com , not by reading a wall street journal or watching leading english news channels. BJP may surprise people with the results. But it is clear that the BJP and Congress are racing for the 3rd and 4th place while SP and BSP are racing for the 1st and the 2nd. The irony is that any seats more than the 2007 polls, Congress will claim as the victory of Rahul baba. 7:10 am January 5, 2012 Sarat Pattanayak wrote: By welcoming the tainted BSP discards into its party, BJP has taken two running jumps from the gutter to the sewer. Its highfalutin wail against corruption stands thoroughly exposed. Earlier, it played a dubious game of opposing the Lokpal bill on purely legal sophistry. But the laity was not convinced. Why does the party adopt kamikaze strategies just before elections? Inducting D.P.Yadav in 2004 and later correcting the folly saw it kicked out of power. Didn t someone say that the definition of madness is repeating the same mistake over and over again and expecting different results? 11:55 pm January 4, 2012 ROHAN PHOPHALIA , JAIPUR wrote: this time in 2012 uttar pradesh assembly election the congress and the samajwadi party combine can form the government.. The SP
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