Samajwadis end Yogi raj in Gorakhpur: 5 facts why BJP lost prestige war

The fact that the BJP lost both the seats – Gorakhpur was vacated by Adityanath and Phulpur by his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya – is a reason for review.

Latest News : Less than a year after its spectacular victory in UP, the BJP has lost the key seats of Phulpur and Gorakhpur to the Samajwadi Party. Gorakhpur was won five times by Yogi Adityanath until he became Chief Minister last year. Phulpur was vacated by Keshav Prasad Maurya, who became his deputy.

The loss in the backyards of the two heavy hitters of the BJP — Yogi Adityanath and Keshav Prasad Maurya — can be a game-changing event in Indian politics with the state witnessing new political alignment in the form of SP-BSP alliance.

The Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha by-election results were a “lesson”, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said today, citing over-confidence and the inability to understand the understanding between SP and BSP as prime reasons for the BJP’s defeat.

The fact that the BJP lost both the seats — Gorakhpur was vacated by Adityanath and Phulpur by his deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya — was a reason for review, the chief minister added.

“When the candidates were declared, the SP, BSP and Congress were not together…they had not joined hands then. But suddenly in the middle of the election, the SP and the BSP forged an electoral understanding,” he told the media from his residence. “The over-confidence and inability to understand the electoral understanding between the SP and the BSP led to the defeat,” Adityanath stressed. Political bargaining has started in the state and people of the state will understand it, he said.

Here’s why BJP lost to SP-BSP in Uttar Pradesh 1. Yogi Adityanath, BJP’s overconfidence Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, whose hometown Gorakhpur went to the Samajwadi Party today in a staggering upset for the ruling BJP in bypolls, blamed “overconfidence” and conceded that his party underestimated the potency of an Akhilesh Yadav-Mayawati combo.

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UP assembly polls: Dimple Yadav campaigns for sister-in-law Aparna

Aparna Yadav is the SP candidate from Lucknow Cantt assembly seat

 

Election 2017 : Suggesting all is well in the first family of the Samajwadi Party (SP), Dimple Yadav, wife of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, on Wednesday campaigned for her sister-in-law Aparna Yadav in Lucknow Cantt Assembly seat.

Standing alongside Aparna, a reticent Dimple, who appeared more confident, cited various development works undertaken by the SP government against those of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led dispensation at the Centre, she said, did nothing but ban notes and force people to stand in queues outside banks and harm interests of small traders and artisans.

UP Election 2017 -Addressing a receptive crowd which also presented her with a sword, Dimple, attired in fawn colour saree, recalled as to how Taj City Agra has been linked with Lucknow through the only expressway of its kind in the country.

"This is an expressway of development, prosperity and improving the economy and it will be taken to Ballia (on SP returning to power)...Will you support us in it?" she said, asking people to raise their hands in support.

Amidst slogans and cheers, she referred to the Lucknow Metro project which she said was completed with the blessings of Netaji (Mulayam Singh) in two years' time... "Now even the prime minister has said he will come and sit in our metro," she said. (read more...)

Yadav vs Yadav: Samajwadi Party is shooting itself in the foot

The Samajwadi Party might like to call itself socialist but it has never shied away from family rule. The last time SP was in power,  Mulayam Singh’s brother Shivpal, his cousin Ramgopal, nephew Dharmendra and son Akhilesh were the moving figures behind the administration in Lucknow. Shivpal was the PWD minister but wielded enormous clout in the government and was responsible for recruitment in the state’s police force for allegedly pecuniary benefits. 

In fact one of the reasons the police force in UP is considered ineffective is the probe Mayawati ordered after she came to power in 2007, sacking thousands of policemen who were appointed by the Mulayam Singh government and replacing them with appointees of her own. The transition weakened the effectiveness of the police force.

After SP lost power, it set out to clean up its stables. Party General Secretary Amar Singh left. Muslim pedagogue Azam Khan returned. And in 2009, Mulayam Singh appointed Akhilesh president of the SP.

Because of the power he had wielded, a large number of party leaders had cast their lot with Shivpal. Now Akhilesh began whittling his uncle’s sphere of influence. Observers got the first indication of discord in December 2011 over the induction of Hasanuddin Siddiqui. Siddiqui was Shivpal’s contribution to SP, thought as a great coup because he is the brother of read more..

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