Complacency and overconfidence contributed to a shock defeat in the Lok Sabha by-elections for the Samajwadi Party (SP) in its strongholds Azamgarh and Rampur, as well as for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab’s Sangrur, its chief minister’s parliamentary fort. .
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav Didn’t even campaign in Rampur or Azamgarh, while UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath did it aggressively. This was despite Azamgarh being Yadav’s parliamentary seat, which he gave up to retain the Karhal assembly seat to be more aggressive against the Yogi government in UP. His cousin Dharmendra Yadav contested from Azamgarh, but an overconfident Akhilesh did not even campaign for him.
SP’s Rampur strongman Azam Khan was in jail for more than two years but did not hire any of his family members to contest from the Rampur Lok Sabha seat, which he won in 2019. Rampur Se Haar Hai reflects Khan’s absence from the political scene for the past two years, his family’s unease with Akhilesh over his lack of support and Akhilesh’s absence from the campaign.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will see this as public recognition for its “bulldozer action” and “tougher approach” against vandalism in Uttar Pradesh, with the opposition mostly expressing outrage on social media. The BJP-led NDA will also see these victories as a reversal of the momentum of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, when it had come down to 64 out of 80 seats out of 73 it won in 2014. NDA’s Lok Sabha strength in UP has now increased. It was reduced to 66 seats, while the SP was reduced to only three seats.
The SP-led alliance also claimed a revival in the state by winning 125 seats in this year’s assembly elections in UP, while the NDA’s fell from 325 in 2014 to 273, yet the state still holds a comfortable victory. .
The BJP will now present the victory of the two Lok Sabha bypolls as proof that the so-called revival of the SP was a flash in the pan and that the BJP is extremely strong in Uttar Pradesh under CM Yogi Adityanath.
It should also be noted that SP had won Rampur And Azamgarh Lok Sabha seats are in alliance with BSP in 2019. This time, the BSP contested separately and its candidate Shah Alam in Azamgarh got around 30% of the votes, reducing the chances of the Samajwadi Party here. In Rampur, the direct contest of BJP is with SP and its candidate. Ghanshyam Lodhi has won.
BJP leader BL Santosh said that this is the death knell for communal, divisive, minority appeasement politics and has a mandate. PM Modi does politics of development CM Yogi gave full help”.
SANGRUR SHOCKER FOR AAP
After a clean sweep in Punjab three months ago, the Sidhu Moose Wala massacre has eroded the Aam Aadmi Party’s influence on the people of Punjab and the vote in Sangrur seems to be against the poor law and order situation in the state ever since AAP came to power. To give power The defeat is a big humiliation for Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, who held this Lok Sabha seat twice, winning in 2019 as well, when AAP was defeated in Punjab.
The AAP also did poorly in the Dhuri assembly segment of the Sangrur seat won by Mann three months ago. He asked Delhi Chief Minister and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal to campaign and hold a roadshow in the Sangrur bypoll, but the damage was already done.
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AAP office-bearers suspect that Congress and BJP transferred their votes to SAD (Amritsar) chief and winning candidate Simranjit Singh Mann, leading to a shocking defeat for AAP.
Comes as a wake-up call for loss AAP in Punjab And reflects the urgent need to address the law and order situation that an inexperienced chief minister is grappling with. The notion of Mann being controlled from Delhi is also going against him.
However, AAP remains strong in Delhi, comfortably winning the Rajinder Nagar seat, which was vacated by Raghav Chadha.
BJP retains ground in Tripura, TMC’s campaign flop
Despite replacing Chief Minister Biplab Deb last month and replacing him with Manik Saha, the BJP managed to hold bypolls to three of the four assembly seats in the state a year before the assembly elections. These by-polls were seen as a semi-final of sorts ahead of the assembly polls and both TMC and Congress launched a scathing attack on the party replacing its chief minister, who was buoyed by its failure to handle the state of affairs in the state. was as a sign. Tripura.
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While the Congress could have won one assembly seat, the TMC’s vigorous campaign in the state flopped despite high-profile visits from its leader Abhishek Banerjee. The TMC was able to secure just 2.8% of all votes in these four by-elections, after a poor performance in the earlier civic polls in Tripura as well. The new CM Manik Saha won the by-election to consolidate his new chair. BJP’s strategy of changing chief ministers in Uttarakhand, Gujarat and Karnataka and now Tripura seems to be proving right by stopping the damage before it is done.
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