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  • Ballot debacle: Sonia Gandhi asks PCC chiefs of 5 states to surrender 

    By means of IANS

    NEW DELHI: Heads have began to roll after the ballot Debacle in 5 states as Congress meantime president Sonia Gandhi has requested state celebration presidents to place of their papers. The celebration suffered large defeats in 5 states which went to polls in February and March.

    Randeep Surjewala, Basic Secretary of the celebration stated, “Congress President, Sonia Gandhi has requested the PCC Presidents of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa & Manipur to place of their resignations as a way to facilitate reorganisation of PCCs.”

    Those that had been requested to surrender come with Navjot Sidhu (Punjab), Ganesh Godiyal (Uttarakhand), Nameirakpam Loken Singh (Manipur), Ajay Kumar Lallu (UP) and Girish Chodankar (Goa).

    The verdict comes two days after the Congress Operating Committee (CWC) meet, which accepted Sonia Gandhi to adopt “important and complete” organisational adjustments.

    “The CWC unanimously reaffirms its religion within the management of Sonia Gandhi and requests the Congress President to guide from the entrance, cope with the organisational weaknesses, impact important and complete organisational adjustments as a way to take at the political demanding situations,” the CWC answer had stated.

    The CWC observation stated that the hot Meeting election result of 5 states are a motive of significant worry for the Indian Nationwide Congress. The celebration accepts that because of shortcomings in our technique, lets no longer successfully divulge the misrule of BJP state governments in 4 states and triumph over the anti-incumbency within the state of Punjab in a short while after effecting a transformation of management.

  • UP polls: 15 MLAs face drubbing at threshold of victory

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    LUCKNOW: Who can higher perceive the importance of each unmarried vote however those that needed to style the defeat regardless of being on the thresh hang of victory.

    They ended up dropping their seat by way of a particularly narrow margin of even lower than 500 votes.

    In UP, the BJP emerged victorious and changed into the one birthday party to have repeated a time period after 37 years in state polity. Effects display that the race for Lucknow has been received on tighter margins than what they had been 5 years in the past. The struggle used to be so shut that no less than on 15 of 403 seats, the victory-defeat hole used to be lower than 1000 votes.  Of the 15 seats, no less than 11 applicants received their seats with lower than 500 votes.

    In Uttar Pradesh, the median margin of victory got here all the way down to 18,144 in 2022 as in comparison to 25,759 in 2017. Whilst BJP misplaced six seats with a margin of beneath 1000 votes, Samajwadi Birthday party needed to face drubbing on 9 such seats. In 2017, round 8 applicants had received the seats with a margin beneath 1000 votes, in 2022, the choice of such applicants has doubled.

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    On a majority of seats, the contests used to be bipolar between the BJP and SP applicants. They fought the combat of lakhs of votes however the margin of defeat or victory gotten smaller to a couple of hundred or 1000 in spite of everything.

    Dhampur seat in Bijnor witnessed a fierce combat of poll through which BJP’s Ashok Kumar Rana received however with a margin as skinny as 203 votes. Right here the SP candidate Naeemul Hassan of SP garnered 81,588 votes. In this seat, 834 electorate pressed NOTA.

    In a similar way,  at the Kursi seat in Barabanki, SP stalwart Beni Prasad Verma’s son Rakesh Verma used to be now not lucky sufficient to sail thru and he used to be defeated by way of BJP Sakendra Pratap Verma by way of a margin of simply 213 votes. Swami Omvesh of SP defeated his nearest rival Kamlesh Saini of BJP within the Chandpur seat in Bijnor by way of a margin of 234 votes. Whilst BJP Kamesh Saini were given round 90000 votes however she may just now not sail thru. Right here 854 electorate went with NOTA.

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    In a similar way, on round 53 seats, the margin of victory has remained lower than or as much as 5000. On 51 seats, the margin has been over 50,000 votes. Of those 51, whilst the BJP received 44, six have long gone to SP whilst one seat of Mauranipur has been received by way of BJP best friend Apna Dal (S).

    Some of the SP applicants fielded on 347 seats, Pragatisheel Samajwadi Birthday party-Lohia (PSP-Lohia)  leader and Akhilesh Yadav’s uncle Shivpal Yadav registered the largest victory by way of a margin of 90,979 votes from his conventional Jaswantnagar seat in Etawah.  Shivpal had contested the election at the SP image and were given round 1.5 lakh votes. On the other hand, SP leader Akhilesh Yadav too were given round 1.48 lakh votes however the margin of his victory used to be 67,000.

    At the different, two of the BJP applicants—Sunil Kumar Sharma in Sahibabad (Ghaziabad) and Pankaj Singh (Noida) – created data by way of defeating their respective opponents from SP by way of report margins. Whilst Sunil Kumar Sharma received the election in Sahibabad by way of a margin of two,14,835 votes trouncing SP’s Amarpal Sharma, Pankaj Singh defeated his nearest rival Sunil Chaudhury of SP by way of a margin of one,81000 votes securing 70.83 in step with cent votes.

    Record of MLAs who misplaced by way of lower than 500 votes

    Dhampur: BJP wins; Margin: 203 votes
    Kursi: BJP wins; Margin: 217 votes
    Chandpur : SP wins; Margin: 234 votes
    Nehtaur: BJP wins; Margin : 258
    Ramnagar: SP wins; Margin: 261
    IsauIi: SP wins; Margin: 269 votes
    Bilaspur: BJP wins; Margin: 307 votes
    Nakur: BJP wins; Margin: 315 votes
    Baraut: BJP wins; Margin: 315 votes
    Katra: BJP wins: Margin: 357 votes
    Dibiyapur: SP wins; Margin: 473 votes
    Shahganj: NISAHD wins; Margin: 719 votes
    Domariyaganj: SP wins; Margin: 771 votes
    Moradabad City: BJP wins; Margin: 782 votes
    Jasrana: SP wins; Margin: 836 votes
     

  • ‘Priyanka Gandhi will have to keep installed UP in spite of worst ever ballot efficiency’ 

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    NEW DELHI: With simply two seats and a 2 according to cent vote proportion, the Congress fell to its lowest ever tally in Uttar Pradesh below Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as normal secretary answerable for the state. Her top voltage marketing campaign and choice to offer 40 according to cent tickets to ladies applicants, didn’t make a mark however celebration leaders say she will have to proceed that specialize in the state and keep put in an effort to revive the celebration.        

    Priyanka addressed over 160 rallies and over 40 roadshows in UP however she began that specialize in the state in opposition to the fag finish of elections. A senior celebration chief stated that if she would have began traveling and that specialize in UP a yr and a part again, issues would had been slightly other.

    She will have to stay that specialize in UP and proceed her reference to other people and that can lend a hand the celebration in 2024,  famous a Congress Rajya Sabha member.

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    “It is extremely disheartening that we’ve got come to two according to cent vote proportion in a state we dominated for a number of years however Priyanka will have to proceed her paintings at the flooring and concentrate on the state. She will have to make Lucknow as her base and keep right here somewhat than making episodic visits forward of elections,” stated a senior UP Congress chief.

    There used to be no denial that the celebration and Priyanka herself knew the celebration’s destiny in meeting elections and stored talking that without reference to effects, she is going to keep put within the state. “We’ve simply began the struggle and we need to stay going with power and power,” she informed celebration employees, an afternoon ahead of the effects.

    Like brother Rahul Gandhi, many leaders puzzled her collection of her core crew which made many senior UP leaders really feel insulted and uncomfortable. But even so a number of senior leaders, Priyanka’s shut aide Lalithesh Tripathi, RPN Singh, Jitender Prasada, and Anu Tandon left the celebration within the run-up to the meeting elections.

    Her private secretary Sandeep Singh and UP Congress leader Ajay Kumar Lalu had been blamed for giving her flooring comments that used to be some distance from true.

    “She must get a just right crew who’ve wisdom in regards to the UP and perceive the state. This is a tricky process to restore the Congress because the celebration base has utterly eroded and the election developments display that our dependable citizens have additionally shifted this time,” stated a former union minister. 

  • UP polls: Private remarks, rhetoric put actual problems on backburner

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    LUCKNOW: The phrase which echoed the loudest in battleground UP all over the electoral combat was once ‘Bulldozer’. Whilst it ruled the discourse of the Samajwadi Celebration as a jibe in opposition to UP CM Yogi Adityanath to replicate his coverage of scorching pursuit of a specific neighborhood within the identify of legislation and order, the BJP, at the different, donned it as an honour.

    Every now and then, the top octane marketing campaign were given so private and top at the rhetoric that the true problems had been driven to the background.

    Going a step additional, the BJP ballot marketing campaign modulators made up our minds to lineup ‘bulldozers’ at Yogi’s rallies as a mark of other folks’s confirmation in opposition to his toughness in opposition to the criminals on one aspect and the signage of construction, at the different. Additionally, by the point ballot juggernaut reached the 3rd part, Yogi willingly earned the moniker  — ‘Bulldozer Baba’ — personifying his credentials of 1 taking at the mafia head-on. Even the native media used the moniker regularly for the UP CM.

    At a public rally in Karhal, Akhilesh Yadav’s constituency, Yogi asserted that he had despatched his bulldozers for restore until polls had been on. “They are going to be put to provider once more after March 10 to silence all those that are hot-headed,” Yogi had asserted to a cheering crowd.

    Even a video of UP CM went viral on social media appearing him in a helicopter over a rally floor in Bahraich and drawing excitement over the stationed bulldozers on one aspect of the bottom.

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    Whilst the marketing campaign entered the fourth part, SP leader Akhilesh Yadav made the announcement from a level that as an alternative of calling Yogi Adityanath as ‘Baba Mukhyamantri,’ Yogi Adityanath can be referred to as ‘Baba Bulldozer’. “It’s no longer me who has given him this identify. An excessively giant media space has given him this identify,” stated Akhilesh.

    Now transferring to different rhetorics, ‘Garmi’, ‘Ganna (cane) Vs Jinnah’, ‘Pakistan’ had been different jargons that ruled the ballot lexicon phase-by-phase, region-by-region.

    In western UP, the ‘Garmi Utar Denge’ catchline took the lead within the discourse of UP CM Yogi Adityanath as a response to a arguable video of SP candidate Nahid Hassan wherein he was once noticed issuing threats to citizens. The saffron brigade were given a device with out a lot effort to overcome the opposition eyeing
    polarization of votes in a area the place minority neighborhood dominates the inhabitants in some wallet.

    Because the scene shifted to the cane belt of Rohailkhand, the disagreement targeted round ‘Ganna Vs Jinnah.’ The BJP began highlighting Akhilesh Yadav’s October 31 commentary on Mohammad Ali Jinnah whom he had considered the liberty fighter, the SP and Congress minced no phrases in concentrated on the BJP over the
    killing of farmers allegedly by means of the union minister’s son in Lakhimpur Kheri.

    Additionally, the ballot enviornment of UP was once additionally replete with ‘jugalbandi’ of catchy rankings between the incumbent and opposition camps. ‘UP mein sab ba …..’ by means of BJP MP Ravi Kishan was once answered in the similar tone as tenor with …‘UP mein Ka Ba ….? by means of the opposition. Kanhaiya Mittal’s ‘Jo Ram Ko Laye hain, hum unko layenge (we will be able to convey those that have introduced Lord Ram)’ was once responded by means of the opposition as — ‘Jo Saand ko laye hain, hum unko bhagayenge’ (we will be able to shoo away those that have introduced stray livestock).