Campaigning got here to an finish on Saturday for the single-day election in Uttarakhand and Goa, two states identified for political volatility the place the BJP is making an attempt to retain energy, and for the second section of meeting polls in Uttar Pradesh on February 14.
While the BJP leaders have been asking voters to go once more for a “double-engine government”, a reference to the identical celebration being in energy on the Center and within the state, to make sure improvement, opposition events just like the Congress and the AAP have has been focusing on the saffron celebration on points like value rise, farmers’ protest and alleged divisive agenda.
Polling is scheduled to be held on all of the 70 Assembly seats in Uttarkhand and 40 constituencies in Goa, moreover 55 seats in Uttar Pradesh, on Monday whereas the counting of votes can be taken up on March 10.
A bunch of prime leaders, together with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, AAP convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal held a sequence of rallies in assist of their celebration candidates because the ban on bodily rallies was lifted in a phased method by the Election Commission’s (EC) from February 1.
Electioneering, which drew to an in depth at 6 PM in accordance with the EC tips, was affected for essentially the most half by Covid-19 restrictions, together with a ban on bodily rallies, forcing the political events to restrict to digital rallies and scaled-down door -to-door campaigns.
Before the beginning of the silence interval, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami promised to carry the Uniform Civil Code within the state if the BJP is voted to energy, bringing into highlight the controversial difficulty but once more.
A standard civil code will promote social amity and gender equality moreover strengthening girls empowerment, Dhami stated.
The difficulty of not permitting Hijab in Karnataka faculties and schools has additionally been raised by events with protests being held in a number of states.
On the final day of campaigning, Modi held a rally in Rudrapur, Adityanath in Tehri and Kotdwar, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh in Kapkot, Salt and Ramnagar, whereas Shah addressed rallies in Dhanolti, Sahaspur and Raipur, moreover collaborating in a door-to-door -door marketing campaign in Haridwar and performing puja at Har ki Pauri.
At the Rudrapur rally, the prime minister appealed to the individuals of the state to not let the Congress’s “agenda of appeasement” succeed within the election, describing it as a possibility for them to wipe out the opposition celebration that has already been uprooted from many states.
Priyanka Gandhi, at her rallies in Khatima and Haldwani, raised the problems of inflation, unemployment and the plight of farmers. She alleged that the three agriculture legal guidelines that led to a year-long farmers’ protest had been meant to carry extra prosperity to Modi’s billionaire industrialist pals at the price of the farmers.
Though the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has thrown all its would possibly into these polls to make the competition triangular, the Congress and the BJP, which have been in energy alternately within the state since its creation in 2000, are locked in a straight contest in a lot of the seats.
A complete of 301 candidates are within the fray for 40 constituencies in Goa.
Besides the BJP, Congress, Aam Aadmi Party and the Trinamool Congress, there are different events within the fray — Goa Forward Party (GFP), Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP), NCP, Shiv Sena, Revolutionary Goans, Goencho Swabhimaan Party, Jai Mahabharat Party and Sambhaji Brigade.
There are additionally 68 Independent candidates which embrace rebels from the primary political events. Utpal Parrikar, son of late BJP stalwart Manohar Parrikar, is contesting from Panaji as Independent after the BJP denied him a ticket from the seat.
Laxmikant Parsekar, a former chief minister who’s contesting from Mandrem, too had been denied a ticket by the BJP.
The BJP, which has not entered into any pre-poll alliance, is making an attempt to retain energy within the coastal state.
Congress had received 17 seats within the 2017 elections and emerged as the most important single celebration, however couldn’t type a authorities because the BJP cobbled collectively a coalition.
In the final 5 years, many Congress MLAs abandoned the celebration, lowering its power to 2 MLAs.
The AAP is contesting 39 seats. During the marketing campaign, the celebration’s National Convener Arvind Kejriwal promised to copy the “Delhi Model” in Goa and supply a “corruption-free government”.
Mamata Banerjee-led TMC is the newest entrant in Goa’s electoral politics and can contest 26 seats. The TMC is preventing the election in alliance with the MGP, the oldest political celebration within the state which is contesting on 13.
The NCP and Shiv Sena have entered right into a pre-poll alliance. While the Sena is contesting on 11 seats, the NCP is contesting on 13.
Sena leaders Aaditya Thackeray and Sanjay Raut campaigned within the state.
The high-decibel campaigning for 55 Uttar Pradesh Assembly seats noticed senior leaders from main events – BJP, SP, BSP, CONG, RLD- making an attempt to woo voters until the final minute.
As many as 586 candidates are within the fray on this section with the seats unfold throughout 9 districts of Saharanpur, Bijnor, Moradabad, Sambhal, Rampur, Amroha, Budaun, Bareilly and Shahjahanpur.
The areas going to polls on this section have a sizeable Muslim inhabitants influenced by spiritual leaders of the Barelvi and Deoband sects. These areas are thought of to be the stronghold of the Samajwadi Party.
The outstanding faces within the fray on this section embrace senior Samajwadi Party chief Mohammad Azam Khan, who has been fielded from his stronghold Rampur seat, and several other state ministers.
Khan’s son Abdullah Azam has been fielded from the Swar seat.
In Uttar Pradesh, of the 55 seats going to polls on this section, the ruling BJP had received 38 in 2017, whereas the Samajwadi Party had bagged 15 and the Congress two. The SP and the Congress had contested the final Assembly election in an alliance.
The state is having a seven-phase election.
Campaigning for the BJP, Prime Minister Modi had attacked the dynastic events and burdened that his celebration’s authorities was crucial for the state to take care of regulation and regulation and guarantee improvement.
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav had focused the state authorities, saying that “Azam Khan is in jail for building university, son of a Union minister is out of jail” within the case of working over farmers.
This is the “new India of the BJP”, he had stated mockingly.
BSP chief Mayawati alleged that Muslims, Dalits and Brahmins have suffered below the BJP authorities.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
