22 minutes agoAuthor: Devanshu Tiwari
In the 2022 assembly elections, out of 403 seats in UP, BJP alliance got 273 seats and SP alliance got 125 i.e. 398. After this only 5 seats are left. Yogi-Akhilesh’s candidates were flop in 4 seats. There is one seat where SP had not even fielded its candidate.
We are telling 5 graphics and stories in turn from the five seats. Let’s see…
Seat 1. Rasra Assembly: Yogi went to Ballia, yet could not win this seat
On 26 February, CM Yogi Adityanath held a public meeting in the Ballia Nagar Vidhan Sabha. Along with Rasra, he had appealed to win the remaining seats for BJP candidates. But it didn’t make much difference.
From Rasra seat, BSP candidate Umashankar Singh is the only MLA to win from BSP. He defeated Mahendra Chauhan of SBSP by getting total 87887 votes. Mahendra got 81,304 votes. BJP candidate Babban, who came third, got 24,235 votes.
Seat 2. Farenda Assembly: Lotus, which has been blooming continuously since 2007, withered in 2022
In the year 2007, Bajrang Bahadur Singh defeated Virendra Chaudhary of BSP here. From then till 2017 neither the winning party nor the candidate changed in this seat. But in 2022, Virendra contested from Congress and defeated Bajrang Bahadur Singh by only 1087 votes in a close contest.
Virendra got 84755 votes. While Bajrang Bahadur Singh of BJP got 83,668 votes. SP’s Shankhlal Manjhi got 16457 votes. BSP’s Ishu Chaurasia got 21,665 votes. Virendra is the only male candidate of Congress who has got victory in this election.
Seat 3. Ramupar Khas Assembly: BJP did not come here for 41 years
Aradhana Mishra, daughter of senior Congress leader Pramod Tiwari has won from Pratapgarh’s Rampur Khas assembly seat. Mona has defeated BJP candidate Nagesh Pratap Singh by a huge margin of 14306 votes. Aradhana Mishra got 83852. While BJP candidate Nagesh Pratap got 69346 votes. Apart from Nagesh, no candidate remained near Mona.
The Congress has dominated the Rampur Khas seat for the last 41 years. That is why the lotus did not bloom here for four decades. From 1980 to 2012, Pramod Tiwari was elected MLA from Congress 10 times in this seat. Pramod became a Rajya Sabha member in 2014. After this by-elections were held, then his daughter Aradhana Mishra Mona became MLA for the first time from here. Since then she has been winning this seat continuously.
Seat 4. Kunda Vidhan Sabha: Raja Bhaiya won for the seventh time
Akhilesh Yadav had taunted Raja Bhaiya in Kunda during the election campaign on 24 February. He had said that this time the people here will do the work of latching the kunda. Responding to this, Raja Bhaiya had said, “Nobody has the capacity to latch on to the swivel.
Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya of Jansatta Dal won from Kunda for the seventh time. Raja Bhaiya defeated SP candidate Gulshan Yadav. In the 2017 election, Raja Bhaiya defeated Janki Sharan of the BJP. Till now Raja Bhaiya was winning unilaterally. This time Gulshan Yadav of SP gave him a tough fight. But till the counting of votes in the last round, he too lost by a margin of 30 thousand votes.
Seat 5. Babaganj Assembly: Vinod alone overshadowed BJP, SP and BSP
Vinod Saroj of Jansatta Dal Loktantrik won from Babaganj assembly seat in Pratapgarh district. Vinod defeated Girish Chandra of SP by 15767 votes. Vinod got 67282 votes while Girish Chandra got 51515 votes. BJP candidate Keshav Prasad got 30391 votes.
In the 2017 assembly elections, Raja Bhaiya-backed Jansatta Dal candidate Vinod Saroj got a total of 87778 votes from Babaganj. Vinod got 69332 votes in 2012. Raja Bhaiya-backed candidate has been winning this seat since 1993.
learn also
- In this election of 2022, BSP has got only one seat.
- Congress got only 2 seats.
- SP has got 111 seats.
- BJP has got 255 seats.
- In the 2017 elections, the BSP had got 19 seats.
- Congress got 7 seats in 2017.