Fine-tuning its electoral arithmetic months before the 2027 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, the Samajwadi Party has instructed its booth-level agents (BLAs) to add five new voters to every booth in an election which will be keenly contested and where every booth will matter.
The SP’s alliance partner, the Congress, won six seats. Uttar Pradesh has around 1.77 lakh booths across the state, according to official data. The SP’s booth strategy rests on data from the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, when the SP-Congress alliance finished ahead in 224 of the state’s 403 assembly segments. In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP bagged 41.37% of the votes and won 33 seats. The SP got 33.59% of the votes and 37 seats.
In recent meetings at the party headquarters, he urged cadres to prioritise booth-level management, voter-list verification and appointing reliable BLAs. Our booth level workers are reaching out to households, telling them about the development done during the SP regime. Internal surveys covering all 403 seats are underway through multiple agencies and party youth organisations, according to highly placed sources in the Samajwadi Party.
“The BJP’s victory march started from Uttar Pradesh; their political downfall will also start from here,” SP national president Akhilesh Yadav has repeatedly told workers. Speaking to HT, Rajendra Chaudhary, senior SP leader and chief spokesperson, said, “Our booth in-charges have been told to add at least five new voters, though they are adding more than that at every booth. “Today, the youth is angry with the BJP over paper leaks and people are upset with the donation theft at the Ram Temple,” Chaudhary said. These exercises map caste-wise vote shares booth by booth and identify “jitaau” (winnable) candidates. Sudhri Panwar, SP spokesperson, said the math behind adding five new people doesn’t stop at just five people.
