Samajwadi Party will not contest Haryana state polls

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party (SP) will not contest the forthcoming Assembly elections in Haryana, but may lend support to any like-minded party in the neighbouring state.
The Bahujan Samaj Party, however, had declared recently that it will be contesting the elections in Haryana along with a local party, Jannayak Janata Party, led by OP Chautala’s grandson Dushyant Chautala.
Sources in SP said the party took the decision as it does not have a strong footprint in Haryana.
SP had contested Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan but had failed to make any impact.
BJP national president and Union Home minister Amit Shah kicked off his party’s campaign in the poll-bound state recently.
Meanwhile, the SP top leadership is preoccupied with re-strategising the party’s plan for returning to power in UP in the 2022 Assembly elections.
The party leadership has received reports of weak organisation at many districts, infighting and sulking leaders.