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  • Poll debacle: Sonia Gandhi asks PCC chiefs of 5 states to resign 

    By IANS

    NEW DELHI: Heads have began to roll after the ballot Debacle in 5 states as Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi has requested state social gathering presidents to place of their papers. The social gathering suffered huge defeats in 5 states which went to polls in February and March.

    Randeep Surjewala, General Secretary of the social gathering mentioned, “Congress President, Sonia Gandhi has asked the PCC Presidents of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa & Manipur to put in their resignations in order to facilitate reorganisation of PCCs.”

    Those who’ve been requested to resign embody Navjot Sidhu (Punjab), Ganesh Godiyal (Uttarakhand), Nameirakpam Loken Singh (Manipur), Ajay Kumar Lallu (UP) and Girish Chodankar (Goa).

    The determination comes two days after the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meet, which authorised Sonia Gandhi to undertake “necessary and comprehensive” organisational modifications.

    “The CWC unanimously reaffirms its faith in the leadership of Sonia Gandhi and requests the Congress President to lead from the front, address the organisational weaknesses, effect necessary and comprehensive organisational changes in order to take on the political challenges,” the CWC decision had mentioned.

    The CWC assertion mentioned that the latest Assembly election outcomes of 5 states are a trigger of great concern for the Indian National Congress. The social gathering accepts that on account of shortcomings in our technique, we couldn’t successfully expose the misrule of BJP state governments in 4 states and overcome the anti-incumbency within the state of Punjab in a short while after effecting a change of management.

  • UP polls: 15 MLAs face drubbing at threshold of victory

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: Who can higher perceive the importance of each single vote however those that needed to style the defeat regardless of being on the thresh maintain of victory.

    They ended up dropping their seat by a particularly slender margin of even lower than 500 votes.

    In UP, the BJP emerged victorious and have become the one occasion to have repeated a time period after 37 years in state polity. Results present that the race for Lucknow has been gained on tighter margins than what they had been 5 years in the past. The combat was so shut that a minimum of on 15 of 403 seats, the victory-defeat hole was lower than 1000 votes.  Of the 15 seats, a minimum of 11 candidates gained their seats with lower than 500 votes.

    In Uttar Pradesh, the median margin of victory got here all the way down to 18,144 in 2022 as in comparison with 25,759 in 2017. While BJP misplaced six seats with a margin of underneath 1000 votes, Samajwadi Party needed to face drubbing on 9 such seats. In 2017, round eight candidates had gained the seats with a margin underneath 1000 votes, in 2022, the variety of such candidates has doubled.

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    On a majority of seats, the contests was bipolar between the BJP and SP candidates. They fought the battle of lakhs of votes however the margin of defeat or victory shrunk to a couple hundred or a thousand in the long run.

    Dhampur seat in Bijnor witnessed a fierce battle of poll whereby BJP’s Ashok Kumar Rana gained however with a margin as skinny as 203 votes. Here the SP candidate Naeemul Hassan of SP garnered 81,588 votes. On this seat, 834 voters pressed NOTA.

    Similarly,  on the Kursi seat in Barabanki, SP stalwart Beni Prasad Verma’s son Rakesh Verma was not lucky sufficient to sail by means of and he was defeated by BJP Sakendra Pratap Verma by a margin of simply 213 votes. Swami Omvesh of SP defeated his nearest rival Kamlesh Saini of BJP within the Chandpur seat in Bijnor by a margin of 234 votes. While BJP Kamesh Saini bought round 90000 votes however she couldn’t sail by means of. Here 854 voters went with NOTA.

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    Similarly, on round 53 seats, the margin of victory has remained lower than or as much as 5000. On 51 seats, the margin has been over 50,000 votes. Of these 51, whereas the BJP gained 44, six have gone to SP whereas one seat of Mauranipur has been gained by BJP ally Apna Dal (S).

    Among the SP candidates fielded on 347 seats, Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party-Lohia (PSP-Lohia)  chief and Akhilesh Yadav’s uncle Shivpal Yadav registered the most important victory by a margin of 90,979 votes from his conventional Jaswantnagar seat in Etawah.  Shivpal had contested the election on the SP image and bought round 1.5 lakh votes. However, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav too bought round 1.48 lakh votes however the margin of his victory was 67,000.

    On the opposite, two of the BJP candidates—Sunil Kumar Sharma in Sahibabad (Ghaziabad) and Pankaj Singh (Noida) – created information by defeating their respective rivals from SP by document margins. While Sunil Kumar Sharma gained the election in Sahibabad by a margin of two,14,835 votes trouncing SP’s Amarpal Sharma, Pankaj Singh defeated his nearest rival Sunil Chaudhury of SP by a margin of 1,81000 votes securing 70.83 per cent votes.

    List of MLAs who misplaced by lower than 500 votes

    Dhampur: BJP wins; Margin: 203 votes
    Kursi: BJP wins; Margin: 217 votes
    Chandpur : SP wins; Margin: 234 votes
    Nehtaur: BJP wins; Margin : 258
    Ramnagar: SP wins; Margin: 261
    IsauIi: SP wins; Margin: 269 votes
    Bilaspur: BJP wins; Margin: 307 votes
    Nakur: BJP wins; Margin: 315 votes
    Baraut: BJP wins; Margin: 315 votes
    Katra: BJP wins: Margin: 357 votes
    Dibiyapur: SP wins; Margin: 473 votes
    Shahganj: NISAHD wins; Margin: 719 votes
    Domariyaganj: SP wins; Margin: 771 votes
    Moradabad Urban: BJP wins; Margin: 782 votes
    Jasrana: SP wins; Margin: 836 votes
     

  • It is victory of individuals of Uttar Pradesh, says state BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh

    Express News Service

    The BJP’s complete win within the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections lastly broke a 36-year-old jinx of the incumbent authorities being voted again to energy within the state. The incumbent CM  Yogi Adityanath led the BJP to ballot victory, using a high-decibel election marketing campaign, with thrust on the event agenda together with welfare schemes.

    “We, within the BJP, attribute this success to the disadvantaged and downtrodden sections of society. It is the victory of ladies’s energy and ‘motherhood’ as the opposite half of the inhabitants stood by us solidly and have supported us overwhelmingly breaking the household limitations,” mentioned UP BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh in an interview with Namita Bajpai. Excerpts:

    Q. How do you view this victory of your social gathering?

    A. I view this because the victory of the individuals of Uttar Pradesh. The BJP earned it by the acute diligence of the BJP management and, in fact, the BJP staff who put of their blood and sweat to make it potential at this time and obtained immense love of individuals.

    Q. How do you conceive this success because the social gathering has created a report of returning to energy after completion of a full 5-yr time period? What have been the explanations behind your victory?

    A. We in BJP attribute this success to the disadvantaged and downtrodden sections of society. It is the victory of ladies’s energy and ‘motherhood’ as the opposite half of the inhabitants stood by us solidly and have supported us overwhelmingly breaking the household limitations. In truth, now we have obtained assist from all sections of society. They showered their blessings on us acknowledging our work and dedication to offer them a greater life. The cause is a hard-working and dedicated CM in Yogi Adityanath, the steerage of PM Modi, and the clear and efficient governance of 5 years throughout which we ensured the event of everybody no matter caste and neighborhood, in contrast to the sooner governments.

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    Q. Your tackle the technique of the Samajwadi Party which posed a troublesome battle to your social gathering?

    A. In truth, Samajwadi Party does the politics of caste and neighborhood. It is clear from the alliances they stitched on this election. They drove defection in all the foremost events and inducted leaders to win their caste vote however the public has responded to them in true spirit. The turncoats like Swami Prasad Maurya and Dharam Singh Saini have bitten the mud. It has turn out to be clear, that the individuals of UP need growth and real work on the bottom as a substitute of caste and communal politics. It is time for the SP to sit down again and introspect. They didn’t even play a constructive opposition over the last 5 years. They didn’t step out of the snug confines for 5 years.

    Q. Now how will the subsequent authorities be completely different from the earlier one?

    A. We will work with extra vigour for the betterment of the individuals. We will give additional impetus to the event of the state. We count on Samajwadi Party and different political gamers to come back shoulder to shoulder with us to take the state ahead on the trail of development and all-around growth.

    Q. What message do you assume the individuals of UP have given to the opposition

    A. People have rejected the politics of dynasty, the politics of consolation and comfort. People have given a really robust message to those that did the politics of Twitter by remaining confined to their AC rooms and having fun with frequent holidays overseas. They had been beneath the impression that they’ll lure the voters by promising freebies and win the election. The voters in UP are very mature and politically conscious.

  • ‘Priyanka Gandhi ought to keep put in UP regardless of worst ever ballot efficiency’ 

    Express News Service

    NEW DELHI: With simply two seats and a 2 per cent vote share, the Congress fell to its lowest ever tally in Uttar Pradesh underneath Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as common secretary answerable for the state. Her excessive voltage marketing campaign and resolution to present 40 per cent tickets to ladies candidates, did not make a mark however social gathering leaders say she ought to proceed specializing in the state and keep put so as to revive the social gathering.        

    Priyanka addressed over 160 rallies and over 40 roadshows in UP however she began specializing in the state in direction of the fag finish of elections. A senior social gathering chief mentioned that if she would have began touring and specializing in UP a 12 months and a half again, issues would have been just a little totally different.

    She ought to maintain specializing in UP and proceed her reference to folks and that can assist the social gathering in 2024,  famous a Congress Rajya Sabha member.

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    “It may be very disheartening that now we have come to 2 per cent vote share in a state we dominated for a number of years however Priyanka ought to proceed her work on the bottom and concentrate on the state. She ought to make Lucknow as her base and keep right here moderately than making episodic visits forward of elections,” mentioned a senior UP Congress chief.

    There was no denial that the social gathering and Priyanka herself knew the social gathering’s destiny in meeting elections and saved talking that no matter outcomes, she’s going to keep put within the state. “We have just started the fight and we have to keep going with energy and strength,” she informed social gathering employees, a day earlier than the outcomes.

    Like brother Rahul Gandhi, many leaders questioned her selection of her core staff which made many senior UP leaders really feel insulted and uncomfortable. Besides a number of senior leaders, Priyanka’s shut aide Lalithesh Tripathi, RPN Singh, Jitender Prasada, and Anu Tandon left the social gathering within the run-up to the meeting elections.

    Her private secretary Sandeep Singh and UP Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lalu have been blamed for giving her floor suggestions that was removed from true.

    “She needs to get a good team who have knowledge about the UP and understand the state. It is a tough task to revive the Congress as the party base has completely eroded and the election trends show that our loyal voters have also shifted this time,” mentioned a former union minister.