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As voting concludes in the Lok Sabha elections on Saturday, one of the crucial states in focus will be Uttar Pradesh. The outcome in UP will be key to the “400 paar” target the BJP has set for the NDA’s return.
A priest of Ayodhya’s Hanuman Garhi Temple, Mahant Raju Das, has often been in the news for his statements on religious matters and political incidents that tend to spark rows. This time, it is over an argument with Ayodhya’s District Magistrate Nitish Kumar on Friday night.
A police security gunner provided to Mahant Raju Das, head priest of the revered Hanuman Garhi temple in Ayodhya, was withdrawn after he had a heated exchange Friday night with the District Magistrate over the BJP’s electoral defeat in the temple town parliamentary constituency of Faizabad.
Days after registering its best-ever Lok Sabha poll performance in Uttar Pradesh, winning 37 out of 80 seats, the Samajwadi Party (SP) is now grappling with the problem of choosing a new Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Assembly.
The Other Backward Classes (OBC) voters are a deciding factor in at least 50 Lok Sabha seats across Uttar Pradesh, as they are spread in all the regions of the state – East, West and Central – accounting for a lion’s share (50%) of the population.
The debacle in UP which shocked the BJP and contributed to its loss of majority in Lok Sabha has sent the party and its leaders, including Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, back to the drawing board. The roles of party’s state and central leaders will also be under the scanner as the party undertakes an exercise to review the results.
THE BJP’s big loss in Uttar Pradesh included setbacks in the regions of Ayodhya and Varanasi, both crucial to the party’s Hindutva project, which its governments in the state and Centre have both showered special attention on since coming to power.
As the curtains came down on the Lok Sabha election campaign and Prime Minister Narendra Modi began his 45-hour meditation retreat at the Vivekananda Rock Memorial in Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu, the one place missing from his itinerary in the final days leading up to polling on June 1 was his constituency Varanasi.