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Votes in Punjab today, Akhilesh Yadav’s big test in UP: 10 marks

February 20, 2022
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Assembly elections 2022: Polling will be held in Punjab from 8 am to 6 pm. (file)

new Delhi:
Voting will be held in 49 constituencies spread over 16 districts of Uttar Pradesh today in the third phase of polling. Voting is also going on in Congress-ruled Punjab today. Voting in UP began at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm. In Punjab, it will be from 8 am to 6 pm.

Here’s your 10-point cheatsheet in this big story:

  1. In Uttar Pradesh, all eyes will be on the Yadav family stronghold of Mainpuri’s Karhal seat from where Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is contesting his first state election. BJP has fielded Union Minister SP Singh Baghel against him. The SP has lost from this seat only once since the party’s inception in 1992.

  2. In the 2017 assembly elections, BJP got 49 seats out of these 59 seats while Samajwadi Party got nine seats. Congress won one seat and Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) lost all seats. The seats where voting is being held today are in the western, central and southern parts of Uttar Pradesh.

  3. In Uttar Pradesh, other prominent candidates include SP chief’s uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav (Jaswantnagar), BJP’s Satish Mahana (Maharajpur in Kanpur), Ramvir Upadhyay (Sadabad in Hathras), Asim Arun (Kannauj Sadar) and Congress’s Lewis Khurshid (Farukhabad). Sadr). , Louise Khurshid is the wife of senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Salman Khurshid.

  4. After the third phase, nearly half of the 403 assembly seats in UP will go to polls. After this phase, voting will end in 172 seats.

  5. In the Bundelkhand region of southern UP, the BJP had won all 19 seats in 2017. It was earlier a BSP stronghold. The seats in Central UP where votes were cast today were the bastions of SP and the party needs to get a big victory in these seats.

  6. Kanpur is one of the largest cities of the state and its business superpower. In the last elections, this seat was dominated by BJP.

  7. The border state of Punjab, which has seen high voltage political drama recently, will vote in a single phase to elect 117 members to the state assembly. The last phase of campaigning in the state saw a desperate shift in religious identity and agenda leaning towards separatism.

  8. In the 2017 Punjab Assembly elections, the Congress ended the 10-year rule of the SAD-BJP alliance by winning 77 seats. AAP was successful in winning 20 seats while SAD-BJP won 18 seats. Lok Insaaf Party got two seats.

  9. As the Congress tries to hold on to Punjab, a multi-cornered contest will see the BJP contest without its long-time ally, the Akali Dal. Captain Amarinder Singh, who was ousted as chief minister last year, has also floated his own party, the Punjab Lok Congress, and joined hands with the BJP. Aam Aadmi Party is another big challenge.

  10. Prominent faces in Punjab are Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi from Chamkaur Sahib seat, Bikram Singh Majithia of SAD against Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu from Amritsar East seat, Captain Amarinder Singh from Patiala, Sukhbir Singh Badal from Jalalabad assembly constituency, Parkash Singh. Badal from Lambi seat, Ganiway Kaur Majithia from Majitha seat and Harsimrat Kaur Badal from Bathinda seat.

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