Bhopal: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Thursday announced that it would go it alone in the year-end Madhya Pradesh assembly elections.
The party on Thursday announced its first list of candidates four months ahead of the assembly polls in the state, slated for November this year.
“BSP will go it alone in the upcoming assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh. We have decided to field candidates in all the 230 assembly seats in the state”, BSP state president Ramakant Peepal told this newspaper.
The party has released the first list of candidates for six general seats and one seat reserved for scheduled castes (SC) in the state.
In the 2018 assembly elections, BSP had also contested polls independently and won two seats.
However, BSP MLA Sanjiv Kushwaha resigned from the party and joined BJP in 2020 when the saffron party returned to power in the state after the collapse of the 15-month-old Kamal Nath government.
BSP has now lone MLA, Ram Bai, in the state.
Mr Peepal said that BSP supremo Mayawati has decided to release the first list of candidates four months ahead of the year-end assembly polls to ensure that the candidates got enough time to campaign.
The party would declare the lists of candidates for other assembly seats for the state in phases over a couple of months.
