Uttar Pradesh Politics Boils Up; BJP Putting All Efforts in Winning All 10 By-Polls Assembly Elections Seats, Discover More

BJP has witnessed a major downfall in the Lok Sabha elections of 2024 in Uttar Pradesh. They have won only 33 seats out of the 80 seats present in Uttar Pradesh while Samajwadi Party won most of the seats in Uttar Pradesh achieving the target of 37 seats and its ally Indian National Congress won 6 seats. After the construction of the long-waited Ram Mandir in Ayodhya, BJP was confident that they’ll win by majority at least from Uttar Pradesh.

Yogi Adityanath v/s Keshav prasad Maurya   

There appears to be an ingrowing conflict between Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya within the BJP because of party’s underwhelming performance in the recent Lok Sabha Election.

Adityanath acknowledged that the party’s overconfidence and the opposition’s resurgence, while Maurya emphasized that the party organization should always take precedence over the government. This hints at a deeper disagreement between Adityanath’s prominence and fractions who feel sidelined, like Maurya who served as the state BJP chief in 2017.

Maurya’s cryptic social media post about the “pain of the worker” and the organisation being bigger than the organisation being bigger than the government has been interpreted as a veiled criticism of Adityanath. He met with BJP president J.P. Nadda along with state BJP Chief Bhupendra Chaudhary, where they reportedly complained about Adityanath’s working style and high-handed attitude of local administration.

The BJP’s internal report speculates administrative overreach favouring officials over party workers, paper leaks, hiring of contractual workers, and the reduces support from many of the major key communities as reasons for the losses. Maurya responded by saying “the party and the organization are bigger than people”.

However, the BJP is currently focused on resolving internal differenced and preparing for the upcoming assembly by polls. Senior leaders are expected to engage in statewide tours to connect with voters and rebuild the party standard. The national leadership has indicated that no changes will be contemplated before the by polls.

Opposition on this

Akhilesh Yadav of Samajwadi Party accused the BJP government for putting the development of Uttar Pradesh amongst their fight for power. They are just doing sabotage politics and he criticized Bhartiya Janta Party for sinking in the quagmire of internal conflict and politics. He is blaming BJP for the depriving condition of Uttar Pradesh.

Assembly Elections

Uttar Pradesh is going to witness election in 10 assembly seats. These seats became vacant as the sitting MLAs were elected to the Lok Sabha in the recent general election whose results came out in June 2024 itself. The ten assembly seats which are going for by polls are:

• Katehari (Ambedkar Nagar)
• Karhal (Mainpuri)
• Milkipuri (Ayodhya)
• Meerapur (Mirzapur)
• Ghaziabad
• Majhawan (Mirzapur)
• Sisamau (Kanpur Nagar)
• Khair (Aligarh)
• Phulpur (Prayagraj)
• Kundarki (Moradabad)

Political Dynamics

Both the congress and Samajwadi Party had begun their discussion about seat sharing strategy to contest these by poll election together as the INDIA alliance. The Congress is expected to stake claim on the seats that have been held by BJP previously while the Samajwadi Party is going to fight on the seats which are their expertise from past.

The BJP is planning to contest the by poll election all by itself on all the 10 seats, this might cause conflict with the BJP allies like RLD, NISHAD Party, Apna Dal(S) and SBSP who are also eyeing on some of the seats in the by polls.

Other major parties in Uttar Pradesh like BSP and CPI is also planning to contest the elections which will make it a multi cornered contest.

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