Express News Service
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party (SP) may need not succeeded in sending Yogi Adityanath again to his ‘Muth’ in Gorakhpur, however the get together, led by Akhilesh Yadav, put up an exemplary efficiency in a minimum of 5 districts making a clear sweep over 28 seats unfold throughout 4 jap UP and one western UP district.
The jap UP districts the place SP scored cent per cent seats comprised of Ambedkarnagar with 5 constituencies, Kaushambi with three, Ghazipur with seven, Azamgarh with 10, and Shamli with three seats within the west. On the opposite, BJP made a clear sweep in 23 districts throughout UP.
While higher coordination between the candidate and the get together group led the Samajwadi Party to fare nicely in 5 districts, the BJP group was discovered lacking in these districts costing the get together closely. In 2017, the BJP had received 13 of 28 seats throughout these 5 districts and this time it had drawn a clean.
In Azamgarh, thought-about to be the turf of Akhilesh Yadav with the dominance of Muslim and Yadav mixture, BJP had received one seat of Phulpur Pawai of the ten in 2017. The BSP had received 4 seats in earlier elections. This time, SP received all the ten seats regardless of the pronounced anti-incumbency not solely towards the SP MLAs but in addition towards Akhilesh Yadav who represents Azamgarh in Lok Sabha.
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In Ambedkarnagar, the place BJP had bagged two seats and BSP three of the 5 segments in earlier 2017 polls, SP received all 5. SP’s success in Ambedkarnagar might be attributed to the BSP bigwigs like Lalji Verma from Katehari, Ram Achal Rajbhar from Akbarpur, and Rajesh Pandey from Jalapur, who defected to SP final yr and romped dwelling with excessive fly colors as SP candidates on this election.
Kaushambi, which is taken into account to be the house turf of BJP outstanding OBC face and deputy CM Keshav Maurya, was misplaced within the overconfidence of the candidates regardless of humungous rallies of PM Modi and Amit Shah. All the three seats – Sirathu, Manjhanpur (SC) and Chail– which the BJP had received in 2017, slipped of its fingers with the largest jolt coming within the type of the defeat of Keshav Prasad Maurya in Sirathu. Pallavi Patel of Apna Dal (Kamerawadi), who had reluctantly contested on SP image trounced Maurya with a margin of over 7,000 votes. SP had put the battery of its senior leaders together with chief Akhilesh Yadav himself, his spouse Dimple Yadav and RS MP Jaya Bachchan to hunt votes for Patel. The different two seats have been additionally received by the SP.
Ghazipur within the far east is taken into account to be the turf of OP Rajbhar of Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) with respectable chunks of Rajbhars within the inhabitants. While the BJP had received 5 of the seven Ghazipur seats in alliance with Rajbhar 2017, this time, it misplaced all as Rajbhar had joined the SP camp benefitting it with the caste arithmetic.
Similarly, Shamli within the west got here as a jolt to the ruling get together as its excessive profile cane minister Suresh Rana misplaced his Thanabhawan. The affect of farmers’ protest coupled with anti-incumbency towards the sitting MLAs price dearly to the BJP. In 2017, the get together had received two — Thanabhawan, Shamli — of the three seats, However, SP’s Nahid Hassan, accused of forcing Hindus emigrate, had emerged victorious from Kairana. This time additionally, regardless of Amit Shah commencing his marketing campaign from Kairana, BJP failed to maneuver the voters because the constituency has over 33 per cent Muslims who consolidate in favour of SP.