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SP sweeps polls in 5 UP districts on formulation of higher coordination between applicants, celebration

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LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Birthday celebration (SP) would possibly have no longer succeeded in sending Yogi Adityanath again to his ‘Muth’ in Gorakhpur, however the celebration, led by means of Akhilesh Yadav, post an exemplary efficiency in no less than 5 districts creating a blank sweep over 28 seats unfold throughout 4 jap UP and one western UP district.

The jap UP districts the place SP scored cent in keeping with cent seats created from Ambedkarnagar with 5 constituencies, Kaushambi with 3, Ghazipur with seven, Azamgarh with 10, and Shamli with 3 seats within the west. At the different, BJP made a blank sweep in 23 districts throughout UP.

Whilst higher coordination between the candidate and the celebration group led the Samajwadi Birthday celebration to fare neatly in 5 districts, the BJP group was once discovered lacking in those districts costing the celebration closely. In 2017, the BJP had received 13 of 28 seats throughout those 5 districts and this time it had drawn a clean.

In Azamgarh, thought to be to be the turf of Akhilesh Yadav with the dominance of Muslim and Yadav mixture, BJP had received one seat of Phulpur Pawai of the ten in 2017. The BSP had received 4 seats in earlier elections. This time, SP received the entire 10 seats regardless of the pronounced anti-incumbency no longer handiest in opposition to the SP MLAs but in addition in opposition to Akhilesh Yadav who represents Azamgarh in Lok Sabha.

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In Ambedkarnagar, the place BJP had bagged two seats and BSP 3 of the 5 segments in earlier 2017 polls, SP received all 5. SP’s luck in Ambedkarnagar can also be attributed to the BSP bigwigs like Lalji Verma from Katehari, Ram Achal Rajbhar from Akbarpur, and Rajesh Pandey from Jalapur, who defected to SP final yr and romped house with top fly colors as SP applicants on this election.

Kaushambi, which is thought of as to be the house turf of BJP outstanding OBC face and deputy CM Keshav Maurya, was once misplaced within the overconfidence of the applicants regardless of humungous rallies of PM Modi and Amit Shah. The entire 3 seats – Sirathu, Manjhanpur (SC) and Chail– which the BJP had received in 2017, slipped of its palms with the most important jolt coming within the type of the defeat of Keshav Prasad Maurya in Sirathu. Pallavi Patel of  Apna Dal (Kamerawadi), who had reluctantly contested on SP image trounced Maurya with a margin of over 7,000 votes. SP had put the battery of its senior leaders together with leader Akhilesh Yadav himself, his spouse Dimple Yadav and RS MP Jaya Bachchan to hunt votes for Patel. The opposite two seats have been additionally received by means of the SP.

Ghazipur within the a ways east is thought of as to be the turf of OP Rajbhar of Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Birthday celebration (SBSP) with first rate chunks of Rajbhars within the inhabitants. Whilst the BJP had received 5 of the seven Ghazipur seats in alliance with Rajbhar 2017, this time, it misplaced all as Rajbhar had joined the SP camp benefitting it with the caste mathematics.

In a similar fashion, Shamli within the west got here as a jolt to the ruling celebration as its top profile cane minister Suresh Rana misplaced his Thanabhawan. The affect of farmers’ protest coupled with anti-incumbency in opposition to the sitting MLAs value dearly to the BJP. In 2017, the celebration had received two — Thanabhawan, Shamli — of the 3 seats, On the other hand, SP’s Nahid Hassan, accused of forcing Hindus emigrate, had emerged victorious from Kairana. This time additionally, regardless of Amit Shah setting out his marketing campaign from Kairana, BJP failed to transport the citizens because the constituency has over 33 in keeping with cent Muslims who consolidate in favour of SP.