New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) retained its power in the politically important states of Uttar Pradesh, besides Uttarakhand, Goa, and Manipur, while the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won a landslide victory in Punjab with a three-fourth majority. Has attained. AAP has made a significant national presence in the opposition camp ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections with its tremendous performance in Punjab. The outgoing government has returned to power in Uttar Pradesh after nearly three decades, creating a ‘new history’ thanks to the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the effective implementation of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s welfare schemes. With this, the occasion for the BJP to celebrate Holi came a week earlier.
The Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP is likely to gain a strong foothold in the opposition camp with an unexpected mandate outside Delhi and two seats in Goa. Kejriwal described the party’s performance in Punjab as a “revolution”. Addressing party workers at the BJP headquarters in Delhi, Modi said the result was a “very strong seal” of the people on the party’s “poor friendly and overactive governance”. “Those who see Uttar Pradesh through the prism of caste, they insult it, the people of the state have repeatedly voted for the politics of development since 2014,” he said. The results of the assembly elections held in February and March were also an opportunity to gauge the mood of the people. The performance of Congress in all the states in the election contest was very poor. The Congress, which is now in power only in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, lost Punjab and managed to get only two seats in Uttar Pradesh despite vigorous campaigning by the Gandhi siblings, Rahul and Priyanka.
Now like the Congress, the Aam Aadmi Party will also be in power in two states. According to the final trends and results, Adityanath has returned to power in the state after a full term in Uttar Pradesh. BJP has won 240 seats and is ahead in 16 seats. The BJP’s performance in Uttar Pradesh also indicated that last year’s disastrous second wave of COVID-19 and farmers’ protests against three controversial agricultural laws had no major impact on the party’s performance in the state assembly elections.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that the people of the state have ensured the victory of the BJP and its allies under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi, bypassing the politics of caste and religion. Addressing the party workers at the state BJP headquarters in Lucknow, he said that the ‘misleading’ campaign being run by the opposition for the last two to three days has been sidelined by those who reposed faith in the good governance of the BJP.
In the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, 2022, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who returned to power with a majority slogan against criminals and mafia, has been given the new name of ‘Bulldozer Baba’ by his supporters. LUCKNOW: Excited by the victory in various parts of the state, including Prime Minister Modi’s parliamentary district Varanasi and Yogi’s own constituency, Gorakhpur, party workers took out victory processions and chanted ‘Bulldozer Baba Zindabad’, giving the chief minister a new name. Samajwadi Party won 99 seats in Uttar Pradesh and is leading in 11. BJP’s ally Apna Dal (Sonelal) has won 11 seats and is leading in one.
Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party had won 19 seats in 2017 but is leading in only one seat this time. The BJP increased its vote share in almost all states, including a marginal increase in Punjab, where it managed to win just two seats. In the Punjab elections, AAP also managed to consolidate its hold outside Delhi. Many strong leaders had to face defeat in the strong wave of AAP in Punjab. These include Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal and his father Parkash Singh Badal, Congress leader and Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi, former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, and Congress’ Punjab unit president Navjot Singh Sidhu.
“First this revolution took place in Delhi, then in Punjab, and now it will happen across the country,” Kejriwal said at the party headquarters in Delhi. In Punjab, Aam Aadmi Party’s chief ministerial candidate Bhagwant Mann said the swearing-in ceremony of the new cabinet of the state would be held at Khatkarkalan in Nawanshahr district, which is the ancestral village of great freedom fighter Bhagat Singh. In the 2017 elections in Punjab, AAP had won 18 seats. AAP leader Raghav Chadha, while addressing party workers at Bhagwant Mann’s rented residence in Sangrur, said, “AAP will emerge as a national party in the coming days….The party is replacing Congress at the national level.”
Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi tweeted, “Humbly accept the mandate. Best wishes to those who live. Congratulations to all Congress workers and volunteers for their hard work and dedication. We will take a lesson from this and will continue to work in the interest of the people of India.” Defying forecasts of a fractured mandate, Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant managed to steer the BJP to victory. The BJP has said that it has support from Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (two seats) and three independent MLAs.Letters of locus have been received, due to which the ruling party can cross the majority mark of 21.
In Uttarakhand, the BJP has won 47 seats in the 70-member assembly, though outgoing Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami lost in Khatima by 6579 votes. Earlier, he had won this seat twice in a row. Former Chief Minister Harish Rawat could not even cross the Congress line, nor could he win the Lalkuan seat. Congress has won 18 seats in the state and is leading on one. The BJP has won 32 seats in the 60-member Manipur Assembly. Congress could win only five seats.
