Madhya Pradesh Chunav 2023: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Gondwana Gantantra Party (GGP) have formed an alliance to contest the upcoming Madhya Pradesh assembly polls that are due later this year.
Speaking about seat-sharing, BSP’s Rajya Sabha member Ramji Gautam and GGP’s national general secretary Balbir Singh Tomar at a press conference in Bhopal said that the BSP will contest 178 seats while the GGP will field its candidates on 52 seats in the 230-member Assembly.
“A government of this alliance will be formed in Madhya Pradesh to end the atrocities on Dalits, tribals and women. This will also end the dictatorial and capitalist rule of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress and the poor will get justice,” the two parties said in a press statement issued later.
The elections this year are likely to take place in November-December. It will be known as soon as the Election Commission of India makes the announcement.
In the 2018 state elections, the BSP had won two seats. However, one of their MLAs later joined the BJP.
The BSP has so far released the names of 16 candidates so far. It released the second list comprising nine names on Thursday.