: In Baghpat, will the RLD’s alliance with the Samajwadi Party alienate Jat voters? #IndiaNEWS Ahmed Hameed’s father Kaukab Hameed Khan left the Congress in the mid-nineties and went on to win three

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In Baghpat, will the RLD’s alliance with the Samajwadi Party alienate Jat voters? #IndiaNEWS
Ahmed Hameed’s father Kaukab Hameed Khan left the Congress in the mid-nineties and went on to win three straight Assembly elections from western Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat constituency, first as a candidate of the Bharatiya Kisan Kamgar Party, and then its successor, the Rashtriya Lok Dal.The Jat-centric party, founded by Ajit Singh, the son of former prime minister Chaudhary Charan Singh, remained Khan’s enduring home till his death in 2018.Yet when ill health led to Khan passing on the mantle to his son in 2017, Hameed contested not on a Lok Dal ticket, but as a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate. It wasn’t a case of Hameed wanting to chart out a career trajectory independent of his father. It was just that contesting on a Lok Dal ticket was unthinkable at that time: in 2013, a ghastly riot between Hindu Jats and Muslims in neighbouring Muzaffarnagar had shook the region, creating deep fissures between the two communities. “We had been with the Chaudhary family for generations,� said Hameed, referring to Charan Singh’s family. But he chose to join the BSP “because at that point, the voters were not ready for a patch-up, they thought it was too early after what had happened in Muzaffarnagar.�Hameed lost the...Read more

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