A new political duo in UP: Owaisi and Chandrashekhar Azad join forces, with Azad as the CM candidate—will this spell trouble for the BJP, SP, and Congress?

A new political duo in UP: Owaisi and Chandrashekhar Azad join forces, with Azad as the CM candidate—will this spell trouble for the BJP, SP, and Congress?

Ahead of the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, Asaduddin Owaisi and Chandrashekhar Azad have joined hands. By forming the ‘Samajik Parivartan Morcha’ (Social Change Front), the two leaders have devised a strategy to carve out a new space in UP politics by leveraging a Dalit-Muslim alliance. The coalition has named Chandrashekhar Azad as its chief ministerial candidate and announced its intention to contest all 403 assembly seats. The question now arises: will this new front be able to translate its social coalition into actual votes, and to what extent will it impact the electoral calculations of the BJP, as well as the SP and Congress?