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LUCKNOW: With the primary 3 levels of UP meeting elections over in western UP, Rohilkhand, central UP, and portions of Bundelkhand with outstanding wallet of Jats, Muslims, and Yadavs, the level is now set for the fourth section of polling on Wednesday, February 23, over 59 seats unfold throughout 9 districts of Awadh, Terai and Bundelkhand areas.
On this section, the seats going to polls fall in strongholds of each the BJP and the Congress. Whilst the Samajwadi Birthday celebration is making an attempt to breach the saffron dominance of 201, BSP has the problem of maintaining its relevance.
Segment -4 contains 16 reserved constituencies. Pilibhit, Lakhimpur-Kheri, Sitapur, Lucknow, Hardoi, Unnao, Rae Bareli, Fatehpur, and Banda districts will cross to the polls on Wednesday. Whilst Lucknow, Sitapur, Unnao, and Hardoi are regarded as to be the strongholds of BJP, Raebareli is the pocket borough of Congress. BSP is eyeing to make good points in Banda and Fatehpur.
A complete of 624 applicants are within the fray from 59 Meeting seats. The utmost choice of applicants – 15 – are checking out the ballot waters in Sawayajpur in Hardoi whilst no less than six applicants each and every, are contesting for 2 seats — Palia in Lakhimpur Khari and Sevata in Sitapur.
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In 2017, the saffron juggernaut had taken away 50 of 59 seats whilst one seat was once received by means of its best friend Apna Dal (S). Primary opposition SP may just win 4 seats, whilst two seats each and every had been received by means of the BSP and Congress. This section will witness a fierce combat for the state capital Lucknow having 9 meeting segments of which the BJP had received 8 and SP one in 2017.
Within the fourth section, the destiny of 4 Yogi ministers together with Brijesh Pathak, Ashutosh Tandon, Jai Kumar Singh ‘Jackie’ and Ranvendra Pratap Singh alias Dhunni Singh are at stake from Lucknow Cantt, Lucknow -East, Bindki and Hussainganj seats in Fatehpur district respectively. Even former ministers like SP’s Dr Abhishek Mishra and Manoj Pandey also are within the fray respectively from Sarojininagar seat of Lucknow and Unchahar of Reabareli.
Whilst the BJP is going through the problem of saving its delight within the stronghold of former PM and BJP stalwart Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Lucknow, SP is relying upon the anti-incumbency in opposition to one of the sitting BJP MLAs who’re within the contest once more and in addition some new faces fielded by means of the celebration.
It’ll be fascinating to look at how the Lakhimpur Kheri violence factor performs out within the ballot area on Wednesday. It can be recalled that Lakhimpur Kheri had hit the headlines after a farmers’ protest took a violent activate October 3, 2021, and 8 individuals had misplaced lifestyles. The stir had long gone violent after 4 protesting farmers had been killed when the group of protestors was once ploughed in by means of an SUV owned by means of Union Minister and sitting BJP MP Ajay Mishra Teni. Within the aftermath, 3 individuals had been lynched by means of the offended mob. Teni’s son Ashish Mishra is the important thing
accused within the farmers’ killing case and has been granted bail lately by means of Allahabad Top Court docket.
The opposition has continuously been focused on the BJP over the incident searching for Teni’s elimination from the Modi cupboard.
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This section is the most important for the BJP which faces the problem in Pilibhit of Terai area the place its MP Varun Gandhi has been buzzing discordant tunes talking up in opposition to his personal celebration. Varun is BJP MP from Pilibhit, a farmer and Sikh-dominated constituency. If truth be told, each Pilibhit and Lakhimpur Kheri have a substantial chew of the Sikh inhabitants who had been rehabilitated within the Terai area once they took safe haven in India following the 1947 partition. Now the neighborhood owns an enormous expanse of farming land in essentially the most fertile area of UP.
Additionally, the year-long farmers’ protest over 3 now scrapped farm regulations has some resonance at the flooring within the Terai area as it’s believed that no less than one member had joined the farmers’ stir from each and every Sikh circle of relatives.
Whilst the BJP is going through the problem from revolt applicants in Sitapur, for the Congress, the most important problem of those elections is available in Rae Bareli as each the sitting Congress MLAs Aditi Singh from Raebareli Sadar and Rakesh Pratap Singh from Harchandpur, have grew to become rebels and at the moment are contesting on BJP price ticket.
Rae Bareli is the parliamentary constituency of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and the celebration will face primary embarrassment if it fails to retain its fortress.