BJP will contest Uttar Pradesh polls alone, says Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Sunday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would contest the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls on its own. Naqvi said the BJP has now emerged as a strong political force in Uttar Pradesh.

"The people have seen the governance of BSP, they are now seeing the SP"s governance where there is only corruption and misrule. The people of Uttar Pradesh want relief from all this. The BJP will contest the elections on its own and even form the government," Naqvi told ANI in Delhi.

In the civic body polls held in November, the BJP had lost in many constituencies. The party had reportedly lost 50 seats out of 58 in Varanasi, which is Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constituency.

The BJP could only win four of the 28 seats in Home Minister Rajnath Singh's Lucknow constituency, while it lost 49 out of the 56 seats in Union Minister Kalraj Mishra's Deora constituency.