Lucknow, June 3 -- In what may be seen as an indication of a tussle in the NDA camp for the Mau Sadar assembly seat, Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister and Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) chief Om Prakash Rajbhar on Monday staked his party's claim to the seat even as senior ally Bharatiya Janata Party said a decision will be taken by the central leadership.

The move comes a day after the seat was declared vacant on the disqualification of sitting MLA Abbas Ansari, the son of the late gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari.

"We will talk to the top NDA leadership to field a candidate in the by-election," Rajbhar said at a press conference.

The SBSP had won the Mau Sadar seat in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections in alliance ...