00:00Alright, the third front takes shape ahead of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections.
00:03The AIMIM chief, Saudine OAC, and the Lok Sabha MP, Chandrasekhar Azad,
00:09have formed a third front ahead of the Assembly Elections.
00:12Tomorrow, Mr. OAC and Chandrasekhar Azad will do a joint press conference
00:17to formally announce the alliance.
00:19Now, the new alliance in Uttar Pradesh will contest elections.
00:22They're saying approximately 150 seats.
00:25That's interesting.
00:26Chandrasekhar Azad seeing at the moment as a voice which was going to capture the space of BSP.
00:34OAC, on the other hand, said to be forming a front on his own,
00:38but now he seems to have gotten together with Ravan, as he's popularly called,
00:43and a joint press conference tomorrow to announce that alliance
00:46and also announce that they'll be fighting on 150 seats could be very interesting.
00:51Samar Chivastava joining us from Lucknow for more on this.
00:54Samarth, you were speaking about this just last week on how a third front could emerge
00:58and which way the swing will be also interesting.
01:01At the moment, Mr. OAC and Azad coming together.
01:06Has it come as a surprise how exactly are the other two parties, SP and BJP, reacting?
01:16So, as I told you, it's not a surprise.
01:19It was all planned and we know that Chandrasekhar Ravan and Asad bin Ovesi were in talks for months now,
01:25though it was also calculated risk because they were also planning in a way to get some more smaller parties
01:31and they can also because it's just the official announcement tomorrow
01:34in the form of the press conference in Lucknow at 12pm around where Asad bin Ovesi and Chandrasekhar Ravan
01:39will be sharing the stage and clearly they'll also set a new name of this particular alliance
01:44and also they may also announce the number of seats on which they will be contesting.
01:48As per our sources, it will be somewhere around 150 seats
01:51where Azad Samarth party of Ravan and AIMIM obviously of Asad bin Ovesi will be fighting their elections.
01:57Now, it's going to be worth seeing how this further goes on
02:00because we have known that from day one, AIMIM wanted an alliance with the Bahujan Samaj party.
02:06But talks did not happen, but things did not go on that particular route.
02:10So, they have chosen a better party in the form of Chandrasekhar Ravan
02:15because what Chandrasekhar Ravan has showed in the previously concluded Lok Sabha elections
02:20is that he has got that Dalit vote bank hold, at least in those pockets around the Western Uttar Pradesh.
02:26So, that's why Asad bin Ovesi feels that if he comes along, then this MD, that means Muslim Dalit vote
02:33bank
02:34could make things difficult for the India alliance and also for the BJPC.
02:38The point is, with this particular alliance, for which, actually, which alliance,
02:44it's be it ND or India alliance, for which it's a good news or a bad news.
02:47So, one thing is very clear, Ovesi has kept on targeting Akhilesh Shahidha from day one.
02:51He has entered Uttar Pradesh and now Akhilesh Shahidha also, without naming Ovesi,
02:56has, in a way, called him Siyasat Ka Sabse Bada Saudagar.
03:00So, that's what Akhilesh Shahidha claims in a type of shairi, which he posted on X.
03:05So, it's going to be worse thing, to which alliance, be it NDA or India alliance,
03:11this new third front will hurt more.
03:14Alright, let's see how that really goes in.
03:16But, this MD alliance, as they say, and it's all about arithmetic.
03:20When it comes down to the state of Uttar Pradesh,
03:22we'll see how this really progresses in the days and months ahead.
03:25For the moment, the big news is that a third front is now officially in shape in Uttar Pradesh.
03:33It is AIMIM plus Shikhar Azad's Azad Samaj party.
