Bhim Military’s Chandrashekhar Azad Says Will Combat Yogi Adityanath In Polls

Lucknow:

Dalit chief Chandrashekhar Azad has declared that he’s going to contest in opposition to Uttar Pradesh Leader Minister Yogi Adityanath within the state election subsequent yr. The 34-year-old had in 2019 taken a u-turn after saying that he would battle Top Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi.

“I determined to contest in opposition to the PM however didn’t as I had no party on the time. Mayawati (leader of Bahujan Samaj Party) instructed me it was once very best that I reinforce her candidate as an alternative of dividing the opposition votes,” Chandrashekhar Azad, aka “Ravan”, instructed TTN NEWS in an interview.

This time, he stated, he has an outfit-the Azad Samaj Party.

“It isn’t essential for me to win a spot within the UP meeting. It will be significant for me that Yogi Adityanath will have to now not get to be within the meeting. So I can contest anyplace he’s contesting,” Azad stated.

“Additionally, we will be able to box Dalits, Muslims or backward caste applicants anyplace we will, if we contest the election on our personal.”

Yogi Adityanath, who’s a member of the UP legislative council, has now not clarified whether or not he’s going to contest the election.

On whether or not he would request larger avid gamers like Mayawati and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav to reinforce him as an alternative of hanging up applicants in opposition to Yogi Adityanath, Mr Azad stated: “I’ve to forestall the BJP. And for that I need to prevent their Leader Minister candidate. Both behenji (Mayawati) will have to battle him or she will have to let me. I’m robust and I will be able to tackle Yogi Adityanath. Folks know that I’m tikau, now not bikau (I can keep, my reinforce cannot be purchased) and I may not run away,” he stated.

In 2019, Mr Azad stated he would contest in opposition to PM Modi from Varanasi, however later sponsored out, announcing his outfit would reinforce the Samajwadi Party-BSP alliance and the Dalit vote will have to stay intact to defeat the BJP.

The Chandrashekhar Azad-led Bhim Military drew consideration all the way through the Might 2017 clashes between Dalits and higher caste Thakurs in Saharanpur.

Chandrashekhar Azad was once arrested after the clashes. Regardless that he was once granted bail through the Allahabad Top Court docket, the Uttar Pradesh police arrested him underneath the stringent Nationwide Safety Act (NSA). He was once launched in September 2018 after 16 months in prison.