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Caste, regional influence and merit. Keshav Prasad Maurya, Baby Rani Maurya and Brijesh Pathak are in the list of probables for the post of Deputy CM.
Meanwhile, according to a post-poll survey, development and government functioning were among the top priorities for voters in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, while Ram Mandir and Hindutva did not hold much weight in the minds of people exercising their franchise. . The study said that net satisfaction with the Narendra Modi government at the Center was three times higher than that of the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh, indicating that the Modi magic helped the BJP return to power for the second time in a row.
The Lokniti-CSDS survey also points to a new set of beneficiaries of welfare schemes such as Kisan Samman Nidhi, Ujjwala Yojana, PM Awas Yojana and free rations for the ruling coalition, irrespective of caste and religious considerations. Another important fact that emerged from the extensive data collection was that, allaying all pre-poll apprehensions, the BJP found greater support among farmers, Brahmins, and among the Scheduled Castes even among Mayawati’s core vote bank, the Jatavs. Extended reach. The BJP-led alliance broke a three-decade-old record by getting re-elected for the second consecutive term in UP under the leadership of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
In other news, the Congress Working Committee meeting will be held on Sunday to discuss the results of assembly elections in five states where the party faced defeat. Congress President Sonia Gandhi will preside over a meeting of the party’s top decision-making body at its headquarters here at 4 pm on Sunday, he said. The Congress lost Punjab to the AAP and could not win any of the four other states – Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur.
The Congress could win only 2.33 per cent of the 403 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh with a vote share of most of its candidates forfeited. This despite a high-handed campaign led by Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, AICC general secretary of Uttar Pradesh, who centered her campaign around women and youth.
Sunday’s meeting is likely to witness some fireworks as G-23 leaders suggested remedial measures after the last round of assembly elections, when the Congress lost Puducherry and failed to make a mark in Kerala, Assam and West Bengal. But there was little movement on that front. The G-23 leaders, demanding organizational change, had prepared their strategy ahead of the crucial CWC meeting on Friday evening at the residence of senior leader Ghulam Nabi Azad.
Azad and senior leader Anand Sharma are the two leaders of the group who are part of the CWC. Mukul Wasnik, who is also a member of the CWC, initially signed a letter to Gandhi on behalf of the group, but has since distanced himself. The Group of 23 in its meeting on Friday evening expressed grief over the party’s defeat. Sources said the leaders discussed the way forward and steps for the revival of the Congress, which has become “more marginalised, vulnerable and isolated”.
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