After a landslide victory in the state assembly, the BJP will try to win a majority of the 36 seats in the state legislative council, where the biennial elections will be held on April 9. The 36 seats of the Upper House of UP are spread over 35 local authorities. Election office sources said on Monday that the constituencies which were earlier planned to go to polls on two different dates, but will now be held simultaneously on April 9.
For the ruling BJP, which came to power with a two-thirds majority in the just-concluded assembly elections, this would be an opportunity to make itself the single largest party in the house, and thus enjoy a majority in both the houses. UP Legislature. According to the official website, in the 100-member UP Legislative Council, BJP currently has 35 MLCs, SP has 17 and BSP has four MLCs.
The Congress, Apna Dal (Sonelal) and Nishad Party have one member each in the UP Legislative Council. The Teachers’ Group has 2 MLCs, while the Independent Group (‘Independent Group’) and Independents have 1 MLC.
At present 37 seats are vacant. Leader of the Opposition in the Council Ahmed Hassan passed away after a prolonged illness.
Ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, a number of SP MLCs had also joined the BJP. They included Narendra Singh Bhati, Shatrudra Prakash, Rama Niranjan, Ravishankar Singh Pappu, CP Chandra, Ghanshyam Lodhi, Shailendra Pratap Singh and Ramesh Mishra.
BSP MLC Suresh Kashyap also joined BJP. Sources said that the election process will start from March 15 and notification for the second phase will also be issued.
Technically, the elections are still being held in two phases as originally announced, but now voting will take place on a single day. The Election Commission (EC) had said in a statement on February 6 that the program was changed following the demands of political parties.
On 28 January, the Election Commission announced that elections to the bicameral Legislative Council would be held in two phases on March 3 and 7. The counting of votes was to take place on March 12.
Now, voting for both the phases will now take place on April 9 and the counting of votes will take place on April 12. The term of the members ended on 7 March.
The Mathura-Eta-Mainpuri Local Authority constituency has two seats for which separate elections will be held. Polling was to be held in 29 seats in the first phase and six seats in the second phase.
Focusing on the Legislative Council elections, UP BJP general secretary JPS Rathore told PTI on Monday, “A meeting was held at the party office in this regard, and 3-5 names of probable candidates have been invited from each seat.”
He said that the voters in this election are village heads, members and presidents of block development councils, members and presidents of district panchayats, corporators in urban areas. Apart from this, MLAs and MPs are also voters.
In the recently concluded assembly elections, the BJP has won 255 seats, while its allies Apna Dal (Sonelal) and Nishad Party have won 12 and six seats respectively. The Samajwadi Party has won 111 seats, while its ally Rashtriya Lok Dal has won eight seats. Another ally of the SP, SBSP, has won six seats.
The Congress has won two seats, while the BSP has won one.
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