The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won six of the MLC’s 11 total seats in polls on Sunday for the state legislative council teacher and graduate electoral district seats. Of the 11 seats, the BJP contested nine and supported a separate seat for the teacher quota in Gorakhpur. .
Of the 11 seats, the Samajwadi Party won a total of three and the independents two, according to the final results of the biennial elections held last Tuesday.
Of the five graduate electoral seats on the Council, the BJP won three and the SP two, while of the six teachers’ electoral seats, the BJP won three, the SP one and the independents two.
Following the declaration of the results for the 11 legislative council seats, the BJP’s count in the state Upper House from 100 members increased to 25 from 19, the SP to 55 from 52 and the independents to four from two.
“Despite desperate efforts to rig the ballot box by misusing official machinery, the BJP has suffered setbacks from Jhansi to Kashi. The Samajwadi Party symbol cycle advanced triumphantly and it is well prepared to win the 2022 assembly elections. The popularity of the party is growing and has also started to show itself, ”said SP MLC Sunil Yadav.
Reacting to the party’s performance in the polls, UP BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh said: “In the teacher districts, three out of every 4 candidates put forward by the BJP won. The BJP contested these polls for the first time. ”“ This has been a historic performance for the BJP. In the Graduate constituency, the BJP won three seats, ”he added.
Political experts said the BJP’s aggressive foray into these polls, where it got its top state leaders to campaign for the first time, was going to impact teacher policy in the state. “It is now clear that, like these polls, the BJP would also aggressively contest the panchayat polls, where a good show would definitely provide a psychological advantage to the party before the 2022 UP assembly elections,” said Irshad Ilmi , a veteran political observer. .
“The results would impact teacher policy both inside and outside the UP Legislative Council,” agreed SK Dwivedi, retired head of the political science department at Lucknow University.
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