The ruling BJP on Tuesday clear sweeped the biennial elections for 36 seats of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council, bagging 33 seats. The ruling occasion received on 24 seats within the counting at this time whereas it had already bagged 9 seats unanimously. The remaining three seats — Azamgarh, Varanasi, Pratapgarh — have been bagged by Independent candidates.
The BJP, henceforth, emerged because the the single-largest occasion within the House and now enjoys a majority in each Houses of Uttar Pradesh Legislature. The ruling occasion broke a 40-year-old report of having fun with full majority within the House, after Congress in 1982.
The BJP, nonetheless, misplaced the essential MLC seat of Varanasi, the house constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the place jailed mafia don Brijesh Singh’s spouse Annapurna Singh received in a one-sided contest. Meanwhile, not even a single Samajwadi Party candidate might make it to the Upper House of UP Vidhan Sabha.
Deoria-Kushinagar — Dr Ratanpal Singh (BJP)
Agra-Firozabad — Vijay Shivhare (BJP)
Basti — Subhash Yaduvansh (BJP)
Ayodhya — Hari Om Pandey (BJP)
Sitapur — Pawan Singh Chauhan (BJP)
Barabanki — Angad Singh (BJP)
Gorakhopur-Maharajganj — CP Chand (BJP)
Ballia — Ravi Shankar Singh alias Pappu (BJP)
Rae Bareli — Dinesh Pratap Singh (BJP)
Lucknow-Unnao — Ramchandra Pradhan (BJP)
Jaunpur — Brijesh Singh Prinsu (BJP)
Mathura-Eta-Mainpuri — Om Prakash Singh (BJP)
Lakhimpur Kheri — Anoop Gupta (BJP)
Mathura-Eta-Mainpuri — Ashish Yadav (BJP)
Hardoi — Ashok Agrawal (BJP)
Badaun — Vageesh Pathak (BJP)
Banda-Hamirpur — Jitendra Singh Sengar (BJP)
Aligarh — Rishipal Singh (BJP)
Bulandshahr — Narendra Bhati (BJP)
Mirzapur-Sonbhadra — Shyam Narayan Singh alias Vineet (BJP)
Fatehpur — Avinash Singh (BJP)
Prayagraj — KP Srivastava (BJP)
Varanasi — Annapurna Singh (Independent)
Azamgarh — Vikrant Singh (Independent)
Nine MLCs from eight native authorities’ constituencies — Budaun, Hardoi, Kheri, Mirzapur-Sonbhadra, Banda-Hamirpur, Aligarh, Bulandshahr and Mathura-Etah-Mainpuri — have been elected unopposed. Two MLCs have been elected unopposed from the Mathura-Etah-Mainpuri native authorities’ constituency, whereas one MLC every was elected unopposed from the remaining constituencies.
In the 100-member Legislative Council, the BJP at present has 34 MLCs, the Samajwadi Party (SP) 17 and the Bahujan Samaj Party 4. The Congress, the Apna Dal (Sonelal) and the NISHAD occasion have one member every within the House. The Teachers’ group has two MLCs, whereas the Independent group (Nirdal Samooh) and Independents have one MLC every. Currently, 38 seats are vacant.
The voters on this biennial election are village pradhans, members and chairmen of block growth councils and zila panchayats, and corporators in city areas. MLAs and MPs additionally vote.
The Congress and the BSP didn’t discipline any candidate within the Legislative Council elections, making it a direct battle between the BJP and the SP, the principal opposition within the state meeting. Of the 36 BJP candidates, 5 are former SP leaders, who joined the saffron occasion forward of the Assembly polls.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”
