After 2019 experiment fails, Samajwadi Party pins hopes on Uttar Pradesh Congress

The SP-BSP alliance could only win four seats each in 2019. (document)

Lucknow:

The upcoming general elections may bring some surprising results in Uttar Pradesh, with the SP-BSP alliance now replaced by the SP-Congress pact under the India Bloc.

In 2019, the Samajwadi Party-Samajwadi Party alliance put up some resistance to the BJP in minority seats in western and eastern Uttar Pradesh but failed to make a significant impact.

Since BSP chief Mayawati has decided to go it alone this time, it will be the responsibility of the SP and the Congress to stop the NDA’s loot and now the RLD as well as some caste-based regional organizations are siding with the NDA. Political parties in Purvanchal district.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP and its allies won 73 of the state’s 80 Lok Sabha seats.

The party conceded some ground in the 2019 election, when the opposition’s vote total was reduced to 16.

Even as traditional anti-incumbency anxieties were at play, the saffron party claimed to have won 62 seats in the state, with its ally Apna Dal (Sonelal) further consolidating its hold in the state by winning two more seats.

In 2019, the BJP’s maximum number of seats (23) came from the western region of the state, while the SP-BSP alliance could win only four seats each in the region.

The BSP won Saharanpur, Bijnor, Amroha and Nagina (SC seats) in UP West, while the Samajwadi Party won in Sambhal, Moradabad, Mainpuri (held first by Mulayam Singh Yadav and then by Dimple Yadav in by-elections) and Rampur. .

The central region of the state has the famous Amethi and Ray Bareilly parliamentary constituencies, which have long been considered Congress bastions.

In 2019, former Congress president Sonia Gandhi retained her Rae Bareilly seat, while her son Rahul Gandhi ceded his long-held Amethi constituency to Union Minister Smriti · Irani.

Defense Minister Rajnath Singh won from Lucknow.

The Samajwadi Party of the Philippines won only one seat in the region from Ritesh Pandey, who won the Ambedkarnagar Lok Sabha constituency. SP score is zero.

The BJP won 13 seats in the region, including the coveted Faizabad Lok Sabha seat, a center of Hindu reverie that has plunged parts of India into collective religious fervor after the consecration of the Ram temple .

Varanasi is represented in the Lok Sabha by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and is one of the 30 seats in the eastern part of the state.

In the region, the Socialist Party of the Philippines won five seats while the Socialist Party won one seat in Azamgarh. Apna Dal (Sonelal) won two seats from here.

In 2019, the BJP swept the Bundelkhand region, winning all four Lok Sabha seats in Jhansi, Banda, Hamirpur and Jharaun-SC.

A number of irrigation projects have been launched in the arid Bundelkhand district, giving residents access to safe drinking water.

Highways, new airports in different parts of Uttar Pradesh have narrowed longstanding regional disparities in the state.

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