New Delhi: In the eleven-seat Uttar Pradesh legislative council elections, the ruling Bharatiya Janata party won five and the Samajwadi party three.
The latter won two of the three seats in Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Polls of 11 seats in the state’s Upper House were conducted on December 1. Six of these seats are reserved for teachers and five for graduates.
According to reports, 199 candidates from the BJP, SP and Congress were in the fray to become members of the Legislative Council (MLC). The count began Thursday and the results for all but one seat have been announced.
The results will not affect SP’s dominance on the legislative council, where it had held 52 seats to the BJP’s 19. However, the ruling party’s demonstration certainly heralds its aggressive stance as it moves towards the Panchayat elections next year. and then the 2022 assembly elections.
The independent candidate, from the Gorakhpur-Faizabad division, Dhruv Kumar Tripathi shows a victory sign after winning the MLC elections, in Gorakhpur on Friday, December 4, 2020. Photo: PTI
PTI reported that the BJP has won three of the six teacher positions from Lucknow, Meerut and Bareilly-Moradabad, the results of which were released on Friday. While the independents won two seats, SP won its only teacher seat in Varanasi.
This was the first time that BJP had contested a teachers constituency and its strong performance is likely to further impact “teacher policy” in the state, said a report in The Hindustan Times.
The victory of the BJP candidate against the 87-year-old veteran Om Prakash Sharma in the Meerut teaching post was a manifestation of this impact. Sharma had been winning this seat since 1970.
“The results would affect the policy of professors both inside and outside the UP Legislative Council,” said SK Dwivedi, retired head of the political science department at Lucknow University. HT.
Among the four graduates’ seats, BJP won from Agra and Meerut, while SP added to its account in the Allahabad-Jhansi and Varanasi divisions. The seats of both graduates won by SP were previously held by BJP, but the saffron party also won from Agra, which had previously elected a SP candidate.
NDTV set that despite a favorable tally for the BJP, SP’s gains in the ruling party’s stronghold in Varanasi have been astonishing. Both seats that SP won in Varanasi
“It is a great victory. I am happy with our result, ”said Lal Bihari Yadav, candidate of the Samajwadi Party in the Electoral District of the Varanasi Division.
The results of the last Lucknow graduate seat are expected Sunday night, according to UP Electoral Chief Ajay Kumar Shukla.
Note: This article will be updated when the results of all the seats are available.
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