SP has decided to contest Assam, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu polls, Samajwadi Party, Left Front, Bhagabangola, Mulayam Singh Yadav,Assam assembly polls,West Bengal polls
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SP has decided to contest Assam, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu polls, Samajwadi Party, Left Front, Bhagabangola, Mulayam Singh Yadav,Assam assembly polls,West Bengal polls
New Delhi:The Samajwadi Party (SP) has decided to contest in three of the four states going to the polls in April and May in a bid to expand its reach beyond Uttar Pradesh, where the party is currently in power.
“The party has decided to contest in Assam, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu. While we will contest on 25 to 30 seats in Assam, the number will be around 20 in West Bengal.
The final list of candidates will be released in a day or two,” said SP leader Kiranmoy Nanda, who is also in charge of these two states. The fourth state, where the SP isn’t contesting, is Kerala.
Assembly elections will be held in two phases in Assam on 4 and 11 April, while West Bengal will go to poll in six phases from 4 April to 5 May. However, seats for Tamil Nadu have not yet been decided as the state will go to polls later in a single phase election on 16 May.
To be sure, the party was not able to win a single seat in the 2011 Assam and Tamil Nadu assembly elections out of the 13 and 63 seats it contested then. However, SP was able to make some gains in West Bengal, where it managed to win one seat out of the five it contested in the 294-member state assembly.
SP had won the Bhagabangola constituency in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district as part of the Left Front in 2011.
As far as the campaigning is concerned, Nanda said that SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav was expected to visit Assam and West Bengal soon to hold rallies.