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Lucknow:Claiming to represent Pichhde, Dalit, and Musalman sections, the Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM, the Apna Dal (Kamerawadi), the Pragatisheel Manav Samaj Party (PMSP) and the Rashtriya Uday Party (RUP) have floated the PDM Nyay Morcha in Uttar Pradesh where the fight is largely between the BJP-led NDA and the INDIA bloc...
Given that the voter base of this so-called Third Front is nearly similar to that of the Samajwadi-Congress INDIA bloc, the immediate inference is that it could harm the prospects of the opposition candidates in some seats of Uttar Pradesh which the front decides to contest..
A senior leader of All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) told ThePrint that the AIMIM may not field any candidates in any of the seats and instead campaign for the Morcha candidates...
This was being done with an aim to disintegrate the Patel and Bind voters and harm the BJP rather than the INDIA bloc and wont field AIMIM candidates to avoid disintegration of Muslim vote, he said.. PMSP president Prem Chand Bind told ThePrint that since the nomination process for the first and second phases is already over, they are focusing on the remaining phases...
For the seats going to polls in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh phases, we will field our candidates because the Apna Dal (K), the PMSP and the RUP have more support in central UP and Purvanchal, he said, adding that he would contest from Bhadohi...
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