BJP breaks 36-year-old UP jinx as incumbent govt comes back to power

The BJPs comprehensive win in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections finally broke a 36yearold jinx of the incumbent government being voted back to power in the stateThe incumbent UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath led the BJP to poll victory riding a highdecibel election campaign with thrust on the development agenda along with welfare schemes Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the BJPs campaign from the outset first by fully backing the Chief Minister and afterwards by leading an intense campaign in the stateAccording to the latest data of the Election Commission of India on the trends of the counting of the votes the BJP has crossed the majority mark of 202 Assembly seats in the state while leading in more than 245 constituencies whereas the Samajwadi Party is leading on 122 seats and Congress leading only in one constituencyMoreover the exit poll results had also predicted that the monk turned politician Yogi Adityanath is on course to retain power in Uttar Pradesh for the second timeIn Uttar Pradesh the Indian National Congress had a stronghold in the 1980s as the party retained its power from 198088 However the state witnessed political instability after 1988 with multiple political parties including Samajwadi Party Bahujan Samaj Party and the BJP ruling the state in the 1990sHowever BJP in 2000 again came to power by forming an alliance with the BSP and senior party Rajnath Singh was sworn in as the Chief Minister In a major setback the BJP could not even hold its government for a year as the BSP took back its support and broke the allianceSince then the BJP could not come to power and the state was ruled by the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party separately till 2017The BJP had swept 2017 polls in Uttar Pradesh winning more than 300 seats and senior party leader Yogi Adityanath was sworn in as the Chief MinisterThe electorallycrucial state witnessed a multicornered contest with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party BJP the Samajwadi Party SP Congress and the Bahujan Samaj Party BSP vying for the popular mandate and creating history this timeIn Uttar Pradesh the political parties held intensive electoral campaigns but BJP and SP garnered most of the eyeballs Congress also hit the ground hard with the party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadras vivacious campaigns However BSP seemed to lag a little behind its rivalsThe BJP fielded its top leadership including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the campaigning to bolster the partys support baseDuring the campaigns Adityanath who is in the electoral fray from Gorakhpur Urban constituency got a new name Baba BulldozerBulldozer is a reference to the action taken by the Yogi government to vacate illegally occupied land and properties using the Bulldozer machineMoreover PM Modi himself was deeply involved in the BJP campaigning for the UP polls and ensured that there was no factionalism in the party The Prime Minister heaped praises on the UP CM Yogi Adityanath for the development works done in the state and coined a new slogan on UP plus Yogi bahut hai upyogi UP plus Yogi is very usefulPM Modi held rallies in Prayagraj Kaushambi Bahraich Amethi and a massive roadshow in Varanasi which attracted a huge crowdOn the other hand Samajwadi Party also held numerous campaigns to challenge the Yogi Adityanath led government whereas Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi also ran a campaign Ladki hoon Ladd Sakti hoon and gave 40 percent seats to womenAssembly elections were held in Uttar Pradesh from February 10 to March 7 in seven phases to elect all 403 members of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative AssemblyThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever