While Dharmendra Pradhan, Anurag Thakur and Sunil Bansal countered Opposition attacks, a separate team worked on Yogi Adityanath’s social media campaigns and voter outreach.
.According to observers of regional electoral politics, the perception of improved law and order in western Uttar Pradesh, distribution of free ration, consistent and timely disbursement of pensions and allowances directly into the beneficiaries' bank accounts appears to have worked in favour of the BJP.
The Lokniti-CSDS poll survey also points to a new group of beneficiaries of welfare schemes such as Kisan Samman Nidhi, Ujjwala Scheme, PM Awas Yojna and free ration rooting for the ruling coalition, irrespective of caste and religious considerations.
The narrowest victory margin was registered in Dhampur, where BJP's Ashok Kumar Rana defeated SP's Naeem-ul-Hasan by 203 votes. Sakendra Verma, the BJP candidate from Kursi, won the poll contest against SP's Rakesh Verma by 217 votes.
The remark of the national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) came late on Thursday after the BJP won majority seats in four states, including Uttar Pradesh, while the Aam Aadmi Party stormed to power in Punjab.
Yogi, who did over 200 rallies and roadshows in the state, now cements his place in the top BJP troika alongside Modi and Amit Shah and is a leader in the party to watch out for in the future
Gorakhpur Urban was a closely watched constituency with CM Yogi Adityanath contesting state elections for the first time
Uttar Pradesh assembly election results 2022: Not a single Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh who completed their full term was ever re-elected for a consecutive term.
In Uttar Pradesh arrangements are in place for vote counting in all 75 districts on March 10. Counting begins and the outcome will decide the fate of parties. Almost all exit polls have forecast a clear majority for the BJP in Uttar Pradesh.
UP Assembly Elections Result 2022 Highlights: Uttar Pradesh is considered to be the most bellwether state, as its outcome may determine the voter sentiment ahead of the 2024 general elections.
The districts where polls are underway in this phase are Azamgarh, Mau, Jaunpur, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Varanasi, Mirzapur, Bhadohi and Sonbhadra.
Targeting the ruling BJP, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said it is the government’s duty to mitigate problems of the public but in Uttar Pradesh, the issue of stray cattle was created by the government’s policies.
Four phases of polling, covering 231 of 403 seats, have been completed in the Uttar Pradesh assembly election. The remaining 172 constituencies will vote in three phases on February 27, March 3 and March 7. The results will be declared on March 10, along with the outcome of elections in Goa, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Manipur
Uttar Pradesh assembly election 2022: Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Sindhuja Mishra Senani and Congress’ Aradhana Mishra are among the wealthy women candidates in phase five.
In his letter to the poll panel, Singh, wrote that Raghvendra Singh, BJP MLA from Domariyaganj, has used objectionable language against the Hindu community in one of his public speeches.
Akhilesh Yadav also took a dig at Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his reported promise of providing laptops to those who take “admission in Inter after passing class 12.”
Uttar Pradesh Elections 2022 Phase 4 Voting | With eight seats, Lakhimpur Kheri district poses a challenge to the ruling BJP. Though all the seats are held by the BJP, the recent bail to Ashish Mishra, the son of Union minister Ajay Mishra ‘Teni’, who was arrested in connection with the violence that killed eight people, will test the ruling party
Sonia Gandhi also hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, accusing them of mismanagement during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As many as 627 candidates are in the fray in the third phase of the UP Assembly polls, in which over 2.15 crore people are eligible to vote.
At least eight districts in the region going to polls on February 20 were Yadav strongholds, at least until 2017 elections when the BJP secured a clinching victory by bagging 312 of the 403 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh
In the first two phases of polls in the state, voting was held on the 113 constituencies and 59 seats each will go to polls in the third phase on February 20 and fourth phase on February 23.
Saharanpur recorded a turnout of 71.13 per cent, Bijnor 65.91, Moradabad 67.26, Sambhal 62.87, Rampur 64.26, Amroha 71.98, Budaun 59.24, Bareilly 61.67 and Shahjahanpur 59.34 per cent, a statement issued by the election office said here on Tuesday.
UP assembly elections 2022: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav claimed that there was historic voting for his party and its ally, the Rashtriya Lok Dal, in the first two phases of the polls.
The elections were conducted for a single-phase election in 40 seats in Goa, 70 seats in Uttarakhand, and for 55 seats in the second phase of elections in Uttar Pradesh.
Sonia Gandhi has not so far campaigned in this election season even though she figures among the star campaigners of the party in some states. She was not among the star campaigners for the assembly phase that includes constituencies falling under her Lok Sabha seat of Rae Bareli.