Akhilesh Yadav, the Samajwadi Party chief, justifies his party’s demand for 12 seats in the upcoming Maharashtra assembly polls, urging caution to the MVA after surprising results in Haryana. NASHIK: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday said his party's demand to MVA for 12 seats, including Malegaon Central and Dhule city, for the Nov 20 Maharashtra assembly polls was justified. Speaking in Malegaon, he told reporters that the SP's state unit, led by Abu Azmi, has sought these 12 seats from MVA based on the feedback and assessment that indicated that his party was "sure to win these seats".
In Uttar Pradesh, SP left only two of the nine seats for Congress where by-polls are being held. Yadav also cautioned MVA to be "Maha Savdhan" (extra cautious) during the polls after what happened in the recent Haryana assembly elections. "We have decided that Shan-E-Hind Nihal Ahmed will contest from the Malegaon Central constituency, Raiz Azmi from Bhiwandi West, and Rais Shaikh, the sitting MLA, from Bhiwandi East," Yadav said while addressing the ‘Jan Adhikar Sabha' rally in Malegaon amid heavy rain.
Malegaon Central assembly constituency has 3.4 lakh voters, and the majority of them are from the minority community. In the recent Lok Sabha polls, Shobha Bacchav won the Dhule constituency because of the massive votes she received from the Malegaon Central assembly constituency.
Shan-e-Hind Nihal Ahmed is the daughter of Nehal Ahmed, one of the the tallest leaders of Malega.
