Purvanchal, or Eastern Uttar Pradesh, has emerged as an intriguing three-way electoral pie — a Narendra Modi stronghold in and round Varanasi, a Yogi Adityanath bastion in Gorakhpur area, and the Akhilesh Yadav fortress of Azamgarh.
The geographic divide throws up a wave of saffron in each the higher and decrease elements of Purvanchal and a pink wave within the center. This has additionally meant that the Bharatiya Janata Party within the February-March meeting polls has misplaced 25 out of the 26 seats in 4 districts of Eastern UP by way of which the Yogi authorities’s showpiece Purvanchal Expressway venture passes — specifically, Ambedkar Nagar, Azamgarh, Mau, and Ghazipur. The Samajwadi Party has gained all of them.
Purvanchal can be the area the place the SP has made its most positive aspects on this election. While the alliance led by it gained solely 13 out of the 107 seats in 18 districts of Eastern UP in 2017, this time it bagged 42. The BJP’s coalition gained 80 out of those 107 seats within the earlier elections and has dropped to 63 seats this time. The Bahujan Samaj Party has been decimated, regardless of successful 4 Lok Sabha seats in Eastern UP in 2019.
The Yogi Belt
The BJP swept all 26 seats within the Eastern UP districts of Gorakhpur, Deoria, Kushinagar, and Sant Kabir Nagar and seven out of the ten seats in Siddharthnagar and Maharajganj districts. This is the bastion of chief minister Yogi Adityanath who was earlier the MP of Gorakhpur and now the MLA from Gorakhpur Sadar. The complete seats gained by the BJP-led alliance within the higher a part of Purvanchal was another (33) than in 2017, displaying Yogi’s complete dominance right here.
BJP ally Nishad Party was a serious winner on this area as nicely.
The Akhilesh Stronghold
It was in center Purvanchal with 47 seats that the SP’s alliance together with the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) actually labored. The SP-led bloc gained all 22 seats within the Azamgarh, Ambedkar Nagar, and Ghazipur districts and 16 out of the 25 seats in Mau, Ballia, Basti, and Jaunpur districts. The seats gained by the SP’s alliance in center Purvanchal, therefore, went as much as 38 seats from solely 11 in 2017. The BJP gained 26 seats on this area in 2017 however dropped to solely eight this time.
The largest loser was the BSP that had gained 4 Lok Sabha seats right here in 2019 — Ghazipur, Jaunpur, Lalganj, and Ghosi — however was diminished to just one meeting seat this time. This signifies Mayawati’s celebration gained these parliamentary constituencies primarily based on the SP’s help in 2019.
The Modi Fortress
Lower Purvanchal comprising 24 seats continues to be a BJP bastion and a fortress of the Varanasi MP and PM, Narendra Modi. The BJP-led alliance gained 22 of those seats this time, successful all of the constituencies within the districts of Varanasi, Mirzapur, Sonbhadra, and Varanasi, and 5 out of the seven in Sant Ravidas Nagar and Chandauli. This was total the identical efficiency as in 2017.
The Samajwadi Party might win solely two seats in decrease Purvanchal.
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